Questions tagged [close-reasons]
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Custom Off Topic close reasons
It would be useful if we could have some custom off topic close reasons.
One of the most useful ones would be:
Close as Product Recommendation
Any others?
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Why are no other Stack Exchange sites listed when voting to close a Q as off-topic?
When endeavouring to recommend the closure of a question relating to a python programming problem, the only other site available for selection as more appropriate was this meta site. Is there no way ...
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Should out of date/obsolete questions be closed
This question about a sky object from 2013 is of not much value anymore, even if we assume an event that repeats yearly.
(It's not a good question either: no location, no picture or sketch)
Do we ...
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Should a link to earthscience.SE be added to the custom off-topic close reason?
One of the custom off-topic close reasons on this site currently reads as follows:
Questions about Earth science, unless directly related to phenomena observable on other celestials, Solar system ...
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Why was my comment deleted, and this this replacement comment okay?
I'd left a "lead by example" comment addressed to the user who wrote an extended comment about why they'd chosen to immediately close What would happen if a Sun-like star were to consume a Jupiter-...
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Is insta-closing of potential duplicates always the best way? In low Q-rate sites? Is there something to be said for slow-closing or eventual closing?
Constellation search from April 22 2007 received three good answers before it was correctly closed as duplicate to our canonical Where can I find the positions of the planets, stars, moons, artificial ...
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Did this question get closed too quickly? Doesn't it actually have a good answer that's now impossible to post?
Why aren't Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor credited as the discoverers of gravitational waves in 1974? was first written a bit enthusiastically and I made some small edits summarized ...
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Cavalier insta-closing of a new user's first question without even giving them a chance to respond?
A new user, just joined today, asked their first question.
When this happens I think of "be welcoming" before I think of "what can I close today?"
After only a few hours close as ...
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