Questions tagged [exact-duplicates]
This tag is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are (abstract) duplicates of another question.
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I finished writing a question, and then realized it is a duplicate. Should I post?
I finished writing a question, and then realized it is a duplicate. Should I post?
I swear this happens all the time to me.
Reason not to post: it is a duplicate, and will waste peoples' time with ...
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"Close as duplicate" boilerplate text changed
When the first vote to close-as-duplicate is cast, the Math SE software also posts a comment that says
This question is similar to: …. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it ...
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Auto-detecting the duplicate posts
After and during writing the question on MSE, some similar posts are suggested by the site. However, there are still many duplicate questions posted every day. I think it would be a good idea to ...
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Why I seemingly cannot find my question when searching but then later when I get flagged for duplicate question I find the similar question
I try to avoid creating duplicates but I always fail.
Consider my recent question.
I was searching the finite subgroup criterion.
So I typed into the search function
"Finite subgroup criterion&...
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Answered a question that I later realized is a duplicate
I have just added an answer to a question that, shortly after posting my answer, I realised is probably a duplicate of this other question, as suggested in the comments, and I flagged it as such.
My ...
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What should I do with my downvoted duplicate post?
My post has been downvoted, and I'm not sure what the appropriate action is for me to take.
On the one hand, there's contribution from other users so the post can't and shouldn't be deleted.
On the ...
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Should this special case question (that has a proof) be marked as a duplicate of the general case question (that doesn't have a proof)?
I recently found this question: Proof of the Existence of All Phone Numbers in Pi
I understand why it can be seen as a duplicate of Does π contain all possible number combinations?, but the question ...
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Is it a duplicate if the same question exists in another site?
I often see some questions which are the same or similar to other questions on another site (Like AOPS, Math Overflow, etc.)
Is it a duplicate if other questions in OTHER SITES can answer the question?...
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Don't close solution verification as dupe, instead remove questions with the tag of [solution-verification] appearing in search
Unless the dupe target contains exact question with exact same proof (without further generality), I'd recommend not closing as dupe. I know, it can be frustrating when one sees the same question ...
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What to do when you misidentify a duplicate?
Normally I don't like to refer to specific posts by other people, but this is about my own mistake so I think it's acceptable.
I recently proposed this question about the equivalence of the Axiom of ...
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How exactly are we incentivized to post links to duplicates?
So yesterday I came across a question (we'll call it Question $1$) which I found interesting, and after having spent a little time thinking about it without result, I started searching MSE for some ...
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Add a list of FAQs [duplicate]
I think that there should be a list of frequently asked math questions. Let a question be called a sub-duplicate of another question if it is that other question or it is closed as a duplicate of a ...
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Question closed as duplicate, but the linked question was deleted
This is related to Question closed as a duplicate, link points to question closed as a duplicate, but it is more problematic.
The question (Q) Prove that quotient topology $\mathbb{R}/\sim$ is the ...
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Closing a duplicate of a very old question
Normally I would vote to close a question which had been pointed out as a duplicate in a comment and which indeed was a duplicate. However, I noticed that the question concerned was originally posted ...
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How do we handle a chain of "duplicate" questions that are linked to a "missing context or other details" question?
The following chain questions are currently all closed:
Proving that $\langle x, y \rangle$ is a not principal ideal of $\mathbb{Q}[x, y]$
Non-principal ideal in $K[x,y]$?
The ideal $I= \langle x,y \...
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When should posts be closed as duplicates?
One could answer " when they are the same" but what if a question is answered by combination of more than one old post?
So, let's say a question ask how to show a statement C from a ...
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Closing a post with multiple duplicates
Many questions posted on the site are duplicates, but sometimes it's not easy to identify the most perfect match. Frequently, for instance, there is an older question, itself a closed duplicate, that ...
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Close as duplicate when the "duplicate" appeared several years later [duplicate]
It does not make sense to me that you get your question closed when the duplicate causing it to be closed has appeared many years later.
And the question being closed already has a satisfactory and ...
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Questions being reported as duplicates despite the "duplicate" being a generalization to the other
I am a second year math student and a fairly new user of this page so there's still a lot of things I don't understand both in the site and about maths. This is why I tend to ask a lot of questions as ...
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About removing the reputation of suggested-edits and put that reputation to find duplicates
In the context of the current situation, and also, time ago situation, in part for the duplicate-questions on math.SE,
Could it be that, perhaps temporarily, the +2 reputation for the suggested edits ...
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Why can't I edit a new question in place of a duplicate?
I have $5$ or so duplicate/closed questions, which is hurting my "positive question record" statistic. So, I edited a useless duplicate question and asked a new question, which I was told &...
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Duplicates allowed from years ago, but mine are not
This is annoying. I spend $15$ minutes looking for resources online for a question I have, I check SE, approach$0$, all the wikis, etc. and have found nothing. So, I spend a good while writing up my ...
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Are questions about (problems with) specific approaches duplicates?
Recently this question about a classic contest problem was closed as a duplicate of another about the same problem. The closed question asks about a specific approach to the problem, though, and how ...
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Statistics of fraction of questions closed per month (posted that month itself)
Is there any way I can access the data of what fraction of questions are being closed as dupes per month. So, for example, I want to compare how many Qs posted in January this year was closed that ...
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Should we be more harsh on questions with answers elsewhere?
In this question and many others which I have seen, the question is an exact copy with little changes to itself on quora or other sites. I left a comment on the post with reference to the quora post, ...
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Can we have "2021: a year of EoQS"?
In Paramanand's questionnaire response, he suggests that the effects of the EoQS should be studied. This made me realise that I don't really know anything past the "theory" of the EoQS since ...
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Solution verification questions and duplicates: proposal for discussion
When a user posts a (solution-verification) question on a problem (often a standard problem), I tend to not vote to close as a duplicate, since the user is asking for feedback on their particular ...
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How to correct a duplicate flag?
I initially flagged this question as a duplicate of another question, but then realized the other question was not exactly a duplicate. I then found a better (exact) duplicate, and tried to correct ...
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Where to Place Answer to a Duplicate Question
I recently posted this answer to a question marked as a duplicate. I did check first that my approach had not previously been taken. Should I delete my answer and transplant the analysis as an ...
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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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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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Criteria for closing questions as duplicates
I recently came across this question which was closed as being a duplicate. When I read the linked source question, it was not a literal or even particularly specifically close duplicate, but in all ...
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Make linking of questions a transitive relation
Right now if $a$ is a dupe of $b$ and $b$ is marked as a dupe of $c$, then $a$ doesn't appear in the linked questions for $c$. It maybe helpful if question $c$ could inherit all the dupes from the ...
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Question with wrong answer used for duplicates
This question is being used as the main reference when people ask for proofs that $\binom{2^n -1}k$ is always odd, see for example here and here. However, the question and its accepted answer claim a ...
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Is there a canonical "What's the intuition behind integration?" question?
Is there a canonical "What's the intuition behind integration?" question? If not should we declare one? Either case here and here are two example of this question on SE. There are probably ...
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Probable homework question showing detailed work, followed by very similar question from another user, showing little work: flag as duplicate, or not?
Yesterday, a question was posted asking for comments on a fully detailed solution to what was obviously a coursework question. The OP's solution was essentially correct, just overly complicated. The ...
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Should duplicate closing be based on quality or on time of posting? [duplicate]
Here's a scenario: Suppose there are two persons X and Y, now person X posts a question about topic Z but with a poor title (and poor presentation overall), now some time later (maybe years) , person ...
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Duplicate flag was replaced by comment in my name
Yesterday I flagged this question:
restriction diagonalizable operator is diagonalizable
as a duplicate of this other question:
Diagonalizable transformation restricted to an invariant subspace is ...
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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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Question closed after 4 years
I was surprised to see this
The multiplicative groups $\mathbb{Q}^\ast$ and $\mathbb{R}^\ast$ are not isomorphic question of mine, which is over 4 years old, closed today. I was alerted earlier today ...
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A possible solution to reduce answering of duplicate questions
The whole point of people answering duplicate questions which are duplicates without checking if similar queries exist before are because they will get points if they do so. So, the reason why people ...
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Advice on closing questions as duplicates
In a very recent question the OP had made considerable amount of progress in proving an inequality. The OP was only left to prove the inequality $x^2y+y^2z+z^2x\le \frac{4}{27}$. Myself knowing that ...
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How to quickly find duplicate questions which are not exact duplicates.
Some moderators are able to find duplicate posts which are not exact duplicates. That is to say even in the case where the question is posed completely differently but the solution uses similar ...
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How to flag a question that asks multiple duplicated questions?
How can I close Suggestions for a good statistics book and a calculus book? as duplications both What are the recommended textbooks for introductory calculus? and Recommend a statistics fundamentals ...
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Why do high rep, long time users answer duplicate or too similar questions on book recommendations?
Way too many duplicates to Selecting the Real Analysis Textbooks, Recommend a statistics fundamentals book, What is the best book to learn probability?! I feel that too many book recommendations ...
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Should duplicate PSQs be closed as duplicates?
Usually once or twice a day in the close queue, I find a question that is a PSQ (Problem Statement Question) and also a duplicate. Sometimes another reviewer explicitly links to the dupe, other times ...
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Merge request of two almost-identical answers
The answers https://math.stackexchange.com/a/831870/290189 and https://math.stackexchange.com/a/831830/290189 contain the same math equations with the same variables. The logic is the same, only the ...
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How to search for duplicate of this classic complex analysis question?
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A quick search for duplicates.
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If $|f(z) |\leq 1 + |z|$, show that $f(z) = az + b$ is a recently-posted question. I tried to search for its duplicates on Approach0 but I didn't manage to ...
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Question closed as a duplicate, link points to question closed as a duplicate
This question about an isomorphism between a localization and a quotient of a polynomial ring was properly closed as a duplicate. However, the question identified as the duplicate is this, which was ...
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People behavior in math.stackexchange [duplicate]
I was struggling with a math problem and just went to send it to math.stackexchange in order to check my answer. but I see tsunami of condescension and arrogance. some people targeting the question ...
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