Linked Questions
31 questions linked to/from Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 01/2021 - 12/2021)
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 07/2018 - 12/2020) [duplicate]
The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require reopen and undeletion votes. A request should be posted as an answer below (one request per answer)....
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes (volume 01/2022 - today)
The purpose of this thread is to focus the attention of the community on posts that may require reopen and undeletion votes. A request should be posted as an answer below (one request per answer).
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Why are those kind of posts deleted [duplicate]
While looking at my list of 'recently deleted answers' I found two deleted questions, and I strongly disagree. Both are non-trivial (interesting) problems with interesting answers.
My opinion: MSE is ...
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"Applications of intuitionistic logic" [duplicate]
This my question was closed today, and I don't understand why. Can anybody explain to me what was wrong with this question and why it was closed?
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Reason for Deletion of my Answer? [duplicate]
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Derivative of a functional and taylor series
I would argue that the answer provides enough context to the question to resolve it. At the ...
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 01/2015 - 07/2018 ) [duplicate]
The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require exceptional handling. This includes requests for reopen and undeletion votes. A request should be ...
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 10/2012 - 12/2014) [duplicate]
The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require exceptional handling. This includes requests for reopen and undeletion votes. A request should be ...
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How to ask a good question.
How to ask a good question.
This thread has advice on the following aspects of writing a good question on this site. Each item in this list links to an answer below about that specific aspect of ...
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Enforcement of Quality Standards
Math SE has a long-standing policy regarding what constitutes a Good Question. The policy is intended to ensure that the collection of questions and answers here is of high quality, is searchable, ...
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Non-experts closing questions
I have recently noticed what, to me, is a pretty irking trend in the tag I contribute to most often (algebraic geometry). It seems to me that there is a contingent of 'serial closers' who insist on ...
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Why should "trivial" questions not meet the guidelines?
Often among young students, or those new to the site in general, we all see questions that are seemingly too trivial to even be asked. Usually, and perhaps unsurprisingly, these types of questions get ...
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Is the "hint" approach creating a perverse incentive?
Recently, there has been a crack down on enforcing quality standards for both people asking questions and those answering them. The idea (I think) has been to reduce the rather significant influx of ...
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How to see questions time line?
How can I see question timeline? For example, when it is reviewed when it get an answer when it is vote up. And if I can't see it yet in which reputation I can? Because when I do it it doesn't work.
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Whether, when, and why to have a new reopen and undelete request thread
Over two years old and with 230 "answers" (some deleted) is the original Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 10/2012 - 12/2014).
Some were interested for several reasons in ...
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Casually "commentless downvoting", now "deleting by community".... What's wrong with my question(s)?
Concerning https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4192434/1714 .
"At 2-step-cycle for $mx+1$ - problem: is there an analogon for the Rhin-bound (lowbound $S\log 2−N\log3$
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For unknown reasons ...
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Is it possible to edit the deleted post
After a long period a post is deleted, is it still possible to edit the deleted post?
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Guidelines for context edits and rewrites
Suppose you come across a question that has been closed for lack of context, has high quality answers, and on its way to being deleted. Can you save the post by editing it to include more context?
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Keyboard shortcuts... how to find out more?
I was just perusing about on main, when I inadvertently pressed the i key on my keyboard. This is what happened:
i.e., my inbox popped up, with fancy number-key shortcuts to access inbox items (...
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Is either Math.SE or StackOverflow an appropriate forum for questions about Magma?
I am beginning to use the computer algebra system Magma heavily. I am spending a lot of time with its documentation (which is wonderfully organized and clear), but am very much hoping that there is a ...
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A Meta Thread for Requests for Upvoting Posts Treated Unfairly
Preamble
After I asked an unpopular question on Meta, my inactive question on the main site received some downvotes; it seems that the downvoters wanted to remind me of the fact that my post was too ...
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A question was closed as being a duplicate. But it's not a duplicate.
I recently came across this question which was closed as being a duplicate of that question.
But if we read carefully, we see that there is a slight difference.
In "this question", it's ...
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Why was this question and its answer deleted, and how to undelete it?
I noticed by accident that the question
Recurrence on partial orders [closed],
asked by user948104 on Sep 11, has been closed and deleted.
Along the question went also my answer, to which I had spent ...
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Why is it allowed for users to delete questions that others created?
I opened a question and was marked as duplicate.
But what I find surprising is that some users actually deleted my question!
Why is this allowed? From my perspective the linked question does not ...
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Why my question was closed as "Not suitable for this site"
This question Is an ideal finitely generated if its radical is finitely generated? on commutative algebra was down-voted, "Removed from Network Questions" (not sure what it even means) and ...
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Community makes content edits?
In this particular answer of mine Community account made an edit - I always thought Community is a bot- account. It flipped the colour description of the functions wrongly - what is happening?
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Why would a question with an upvoted and accepted answer be deleted?
This is a question on MSE which I had answered a month or so ago. It was an interesting question and it took me some effort to write the answer. The answer got upvoted twice and accepted.
Two weeks ...
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Where should I post my answer?
Yesterday I answered this question:
What should be the technique applied here to get a equation of just $x$ to solve for $\cos x?$
At the time I answered, the question had some other answers. The ...
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What are you supposed to do when your answer is deleted?
A week ago I found a question here that I could answer. I registered on the site and posted my answer. Just a couple of hours later, my answer was deleted by votes from three trusted users. I do not ...
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About output of a function of Magma
About two months ago, I asked a question about the output of a function of the software Magma. The question stayed on hold for a few days and then it was closed.
The problem is that I searched the ...
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The assumption of knowledge of what notation means
My opinion is that if you are going to ask a question, then it is in the best interest of everybody, with no exception, to include as much information as you (strictly) need in order to make yourself ...
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