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Reopen review queue acting up?

The Reopen review queue is acting really strange today. All of a sudden, it contains loads of questions for review (180 reviews today on 3600 ever). Moreover, the queue contains questions that were ...
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Reforming closure's reputation: ideas to make closure more useful, less scary and more likely to be undone

To make a long discussion short, this is one suggestion to help reform the public image of closure at math.SE. I'd like to propose that we should be thinking of it more like a wheel clamp, and less ...
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Improvements for 'most important theorem in group theory' question

I have not made a re-open request before, and I hope this is the proper way to do it. If not, I would greatly appreciate some help so I can do it properly. I would appreciate feedback on how this ...
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How can I re-open or take a question off-hold?

What is the proper course of action if you think a question (not necessarily your own) was wrongly closed or put on hold? Just bring it up here? Or is there some page you're meant to go to to vote to ...
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Reopen votes review queue asks “Nominate for reopening?” when one clicks “Leave Closed”

With the recent redesign of the whole close system, there seems to have been an inadvertent corollary. Namely, in the "Reopen Votes" review queue, when one clicks "Leave Closed", there is a popup ...
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Why My question was closed, [Reopened] [RECLOSED again]?

In my question I ask for practical tips for the mathematical research practice, if not personal,I look for some articles/websites/books/guides/faq related, or if was already asked on Math.SE, the link ...
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Problem in posting my questiom

Yesterday I have posted a question then I deleted today. Right after I tried to repost my question with a different title because somehow I wasn't specific. The problem is that I can't post it anymore ...
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Question that is no longer duplicate (by deletion of “original”)

I was a little suprised to see a Question of mine about a MathJax error showing up in Related Links (for another meta.Math.SE question), because as I remembered it, it had been closed as duplicate. ...
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Scaling votes for closing (and reopen) a question

As the question about the beauty of mathematics was closed, reopened and there is already a close vote again. For sure it is possible that we close and reopen the question several times, I think for ...
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Cleaning up the “Requests for Reopen Votes” thread?

I suggest that a moderator once in a while cleans up the Requests for Reopen Votes thread to avoid the thread getting cluttered. If a question has been reopened, then maybe that post could be deleted ...
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Generalization case vs Particular case

Could the - generalization of a problem - post be a good enough reason in order to vote for closing a question? I agree that in some cases is proving to be useful and the effort is significantly ...
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voting to reopen

When you vote to reopen a closed question, you're not prompted to enter your reason for thinking it ought to be reopened. Where is the appropriate forum for that? Here in meta, or in the comments ...
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Requests for Reopen Votes

Please post general requests for reopen votes as answers below. Beware that "short" requests such as "request reopening of <link>" may be automatically converted to comments by the SE software, so ...
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Reopened question

What was the rationale for reopening this question this question? (The initial comments refer to the link that is struck out. But the subject of my query is the other link) My understanding was that ...
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Voting to reopen question on a remark of Novikov

This question has been closed as "not constructive"; it asks about a quotation by an unnamed, but famous, topologist from the 1970s to the affect that "algebraic topology is dead". As Bill Dubuque ...

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