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Possible Duplicate notice, sans closing, is not attributed nor in the Revisions list

"Possible duplicate" warning after the first vote to close as a duplicate, is a new behavior. But it has some side effects:

  • it does not appear as an action in the revisions list of a posting,
  • the user who provided the link to the alleged duplicate is not identified
  • the time at which the duplicate warning was added to the question, is not given

Previous methods of indicating a possible-duplicate question were visible and attributed to individual users.

This is the first feature that allows a hidden user action to alter the display of a question beyond ticking a counter (upvote, downvote, comment vote, page views).

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