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I'm the moderator who cleaned up some comments on the question, closed the post, and locked it after you began an edit war. I'd like to write out a few things for transparency and clarity. There was a ...

I don't agree with the close vote on knowledgeseeker's question. I also don't think the duplicate marked is the same question as the original. The accepted answer to the 'duplicate' is a great ...

When a question is off topic, a duplicate, or is of very poor quality (for example, needing clarification) the BEST thing to do is put it on hold quickly, so people do not waste effort answering a ...

I agree with the answers posted by James and David Hammen, but there are some facets I don't think have been discussed yet or stated explicitly: The analogy you draw isn't great. Higgs and Englert - ...

I am just one member of the community, but in my opinion, closing questions for correct reasons quickly is always desirable even in the rare case that the duplicate linked question has a wiki answer. ...

When closed because of duplicate, a question has a clear link to the original question: This question already has answers here: [Link to original question] So had ...

This was a poor question and appropriately closed. I downvoted and commented (however Prof Rob's comment was the same as mine so I deleted my comment). The downvote was for "Lacking research ...

You don't like closed questions, period, @uhoh. Other people don't have a problem with closure. I looked at the question multiple times before I decided to join the herd and vote to close. Closing ...

The original comment was seen as being too confrontational, and I could see where they were coming from. The new one looks fine.