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Questions that have been closed as duplicates may sometimes be merged by moderators. One question is retained as a stub while all answers appear on the other.

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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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Merging two identical questions with accepted answers

I found this question: Power Series Expansion which migrated from Meta to Main. OP seemed to be eager for an answer and couldn't wait until the migration took place, so he posted this one: Simple ...
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When, and how, to suggest merging of questions?

Background Just today, we had the following situation: Proving by induction that $n^{n+1} > (n+1)^n$ for $n \ge 3$ Prove by induction that for all $n \geq 3$: $n^{n+1} > (n+1)^n$ Usually, I can ...
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Thread - Request Mergers of Very Similar Questions

Would something perennial like Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 10/2012 - 12/2014) help? Example: ♦ $\sqrt{x}$$\sqrt{x}$ = $x$ but $\sqrt{x^2}$ = $|x|$. Why?, ♦ What's ...
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