Questions tagged [closed-questions]
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Mysterious closure
If there are good reasons why several experienced users closed this question, then it is perfectly reasonable to expect that they can easily and quickly articulate their reasons. It would be ...
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Closing question when asking an advice
So, recently I asked on the main Mathematics site about interesting subjects for my thesis. And it was closed as opinion-based.
Btw this is my question:
My question
Then, I tried to looking for ...
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Why was specific mathSE posting closed?
I am referring to this posting:
Prove that square of all primes greater than 3 can be shown in the form of 12k+1 and similar 2 question.
The subsequent explanation was that the question was not "...
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I want to view recently closed (not so recently asked) questions of mine
Five months ago I asked
Conjecture: Any odd integer $k>1$ has a partition $m+n,\,m,n>0,$ such that $m^2+n$ > is a prime.
and a few days ago it was closed, which I noticed only because there ...
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How can I fix my question? [duplicate]
Question in consideration: Mathematics as several Type-0 Grammars
I've asked the question above because I've been trying to understand the way mathematicians do mathematics from a formalist ...
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“Improve this question” button on deleted posts goes to a page which says “This post is deleted and cannot be edited.”
I went into my "recently deleted answers" tab and found this question (which is now deleted, so you cannot see it if you have <10k rep) which I answered. I can't normally see deleted ...
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My question got closed though it was not completely identical. [closed]
I recently asked this question: "Find the number of ordered pairs of integers $(x,y)$ such that $x^2+y^2-xy=37$" on the Math SE. My question got closed as a duplicate of
this question: "...
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Same question format, but one question gets a good response, while the other gets closed. Why is that happening?
I'm speaking with reference to this question. When I read through the question, it immediately struck me as a low-effort question. It did not include an attempt to solve the problem. Nevertheless, it ...
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Why is the number of required close votes constant?
How do high traffic questions survive without any system in place to prevent them from being closed too easily? It seems strange to me that the number of votes required to close a question is a ...
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Are questions about ideas in preprints off-topic?
Another note: (Since the first one wasn’t heeded...) OK, so the question was closed again. My appeal below was to both sides of the issue, so even though five people sought fit to do otherwise, ...
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What does “ask a new one” mean?
In this question it it written that:
This question already has answers here:
Sets. Classes. …? (4 answers)
Your post has been associated with a similar question. If this question doesn’t ...
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Did I make a mistake in my edit? (specific question)
I recently posted this question. It was closed shortly after posting for being opinion based. I tried to edit the question to make it clear exactly what I was asking, and the question was downvoted ...
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Question that is clearly not a duplicate linked to my question, marking it as duplicate. [duplicate]
I asked a question yesterday: Coupon collector's problem: mean and variance in number of coupons to be collected to complete a set
This asks for the mean and variance of the coupon collector's ...
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Should perfectly fine questions that have been closed and have an answer be re-opened?
I just came across a question that had been closed by votes. The question itself seems perfectly fine to me, and I don't see any reason to close it.
The question also received an excellent answer, ...
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Closed question after several months.
I was browsing through some of my answers. Then I've found this question. It has been closed after more than 7 months.
Now my question: Is there a reason why such questions can be closed after such ...
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We have three question pairs closed as the dupes of each other
Digging in the SEDE, I've found 3 question pairs being each other's dupe. Namely:
this and this,
this and this,
and this and this.
Today we can't close a question as a dupe, if it would create such ...
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What should I do if I think I have an answer to an on-hold question?
The Specific Problem
I saw this question a couple days ago and started writing an answer, but didn't finish. When I came back to it, I reloaded the page to check if anyone else had answered and found ...
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Wrongly closed question needs a better answer.
This question, more precisely this version, was closed on not-clear-what-you're-asking grounds.
That's simply wrong; it's perfectly clear what he's asking. He "defines" two Hilbert spaces, $H_1=L^2$ ...
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Robotic comments. [duplicate]
Many times I have seen a question put on hold where the stated reason has no relation to the question. It looks like a formula statement.
"" put on hold as off-topic by StubbornAtom, Leucippus, ...
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Does this question deserve to be closed? [duplicate]
Here is a question A property of the tangent line that I asked where I was confused on the matter "what is the property that characterises a tangent line" and I thought that this property is that the ...
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Why was this duplicate question deleted?
When does a function NOT have an antiderivative?
This question was closed as a duplicate. I agree that the question was a duplicate (although I would have also added a second link, one to some post ...
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What happens if I change my mind on a vote to close/reopen?
In reviewing questions in regard to closure or reopening, I voted to reopen a question (which had been closed for reasons other than duplication), because it seemed a reasonable question. Later, I ...
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Indication on why a question is closed should be more specific
I believe notices such as "closed as unclear what you're asking", "closed as off-topic", etc. on a closed/deleted/flagged question should be more specific. Closing questions with the one-line generic ...
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Reason of closing a question with good answers
Let us look at the question Evaluate $\int_0^{\pi/2}\frac{x^2\log^2{(\sin{x})}}{\sin^2x}dx$
I understand, that the formulation is rather short, but we have at least two precise, large answers. I ...
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How is it possible to answer a question after closure? [duplicate]
This question, as of writing, was closed 1 hour ago.
However, an answer was given 51 minutes ago.
After the question was closed, I could not see an 'Answer' button, yet, a user managed to overcome ...
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Does the overall closing questions policy too procrastinating? [closed]
I find that when asking e.g. slightly cunning DEs, some corps will make those questions close quite quickly, but reopening those questions are often very difficult, influence greatly the image of MSE ...
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Should a closed question be reopened if it gets a duplicate?
This question How do you prove that $n^2-1$ is composite when $n>2$? was closed as a duplicate. That was the right outcome, as opposed to, you know, "off-topic."
But the question it's a duplicate ...
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Why has the Batman question been closed?
I just noticed that the Batman question was closed this past February, which seems a sad fate to befall such a historic and beloved question on this site. I understand there were always concerns about ...
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Closing a question because it contains an error
I asked a short time ago whether there is a policy the following: If a question contains a mathematical error that could be pointed out in a posted answer, or is ill-formulated for reasons that could ...
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Is closure a prelude to deletion?
When I was particularly active on meta, the topic of debate was about whether we should close low quality questions. If and when to delete questions didn't really come up.
I've recently gotten the ...
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How to explain this string of downvotes?
This is the first time I met such phenomenon. At the same time two old questions
Is there a $2 \times 2$ real matrix $A$ such that $A^2=-4I$?
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2429346/...
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How to ask a question to the topic? [duplicate]
Many of my questions are marked off topic. This
was extremely hard question and supposed to be done without any graphic calculator. It was voted off topic.
It appears to me if I can't move at least ...
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What does users mean by voting as off-topic? [duplicate]
I have seen too many questions, more than hundred, marked as off-topic;
but I am sure that we can not put most of them in this category:
This question does not appear to be about math within the ...
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Why this question was closed?
Why this was closed as "unclear what you're asking" ?
The comments indicates that all but two person could perfectly understand the question, and two persons even found the question to be interesting....
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On the irrelevancy of putting good questions on hold and later closing them
There is a great problem on this site. I have posted many good mathematics problems on this site but they are usually put on hold and then later closed and now I have reached my question limit not ...
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Do close-voters automatically see my revisions to reconsider their votes [duplicate]
If I fix and hopefully rectify what I think might be the source of Close Votes do the voters automatically see my edits to reconsider their votes, or do they have to take the initiative?
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What can be used for checking on posts you downvoted/closed?
I have seen discussions where some users explicitly mentioned that they tend to go back to questions and answers they downvoted (or voted to close) and if they were sufficiently improved, they retract ...
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Poor treatment of new users - especially those asking interesting questions
Have others noticed a tendency for new users of mathSE to be treated poorly by existing users? The worst cases remind of some low-brow college fraternity where new users are expected to show they have ...
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I edited an “on hold” question but it is still closed
I edited this question today to provide some context for things I've tried but it was still closed. Is this because the original poster posed the question too simply or is it still in a state to be ...
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Notifications to participants are needed.
Two persons voted to close this question as "off topic" at a time when its entire content was this:
In a graph model like wikipedia, with 5.4 million pages/nodes (a) and 20 links/edges per node (b),...
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Best way to “revive” a question (which does not abide by the Math.SE rules) [duplicate]
There exists a question which looks interesting to me, given that I scribbled some attempts to solve it and, in spite of the fact that it "seems" like an easy application of Rolle's theorem, couldn't ...
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Finding my old closed questions.
When I first signed up here I posted a question about the monotone class theorem that was closed. Is there a way to find it or is it gone?
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What to do when a specific user's posts are always flagged for a closing?
I have been surfing the close votes portion of the review queue and after going through maybe $5$ - $10$ posts, I noticed that a specific user's questions kept coming up to be closed.
Most of these ...
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Massive rework of a closed question by another user several months later
I just rejected this edit. IMO, it's not a good practice to edit so massively a question, since we know nothing about the author's intent, but I wonder if there is a policy about this?
Of course, for ...
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Is there a way to see all questions that have been put on hold as “unclear”?
Is there a way to see all questions that have been put on hold as "unclear"? (In chronological order with the newest ones first?
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What should a $<3000$ user do when a question is good enough to reopen.
What should a $<3000$ user do when a question is good enough to reopen.
Consider a question was bad but it get better by editing now what should a $<3000$ user do when it is good enough to ...
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Should questions closed as “unclear” be reopened if they have a reasonable answer that the OP claims “hits the spot”?
This is something that happens on occasion.
Someone asks a question, but the question is somewhat vague. Someone with some experience in the field, or rather in answering questions in said field, ...
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Answer to a closed question
I'm interested in the following question:
https://math.stackexchange.com/q/1851713/84976
and I'd like to provide an answer.
The problem is that the question has been closed (maybe before the last ...
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What is an effective close-vote reason for wrong questions? [duplicate]
I just noticed a question that is obviously wrong here, and the OP doesn't seem to acknowledge it when somebody pointed out. (To clarify, the question was ok, but the OP seemed convinced that his ...
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Why is this question about the integral of the $\Gamma$ function “unclear?”
Here is the post: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1807791/what-is-the-most-practical-way-to-express-in-mathematical-notation-the-indefinit/1807814?noredirect=1#comment3696360_1807814
I tried ...
