This tag is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are exact duplicates of another question.
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Proof-verification and duplicates.
When someone posts a question, which asks for verification of their proof of something, the mathematical content of that question will often be a duplicate of another question.
Now, in order to help ...
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Exact duplicates of questions posted on MO
I wonder why we can't declare a question posted on MSE (like this) an exact duplicate of a question posted on MO (like this) and viceversa? (I'd find it useful if we could do this.)
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On closing questions as duplicates of “multi-questions”
Call a "multi-question" a question where a user asks two or more questions which are independent of one another, in the sense that they can be answered without reference to one another. For example, ...
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Marking a question as duplicate even when the question has no answer
I recently asked this question on this meta. However, it was marked as the duplicate of this question.
But the latter question has had no answer and even less number of comments than the first one. In ...
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What action to take on identical questions from the same user?
It sometimes happens that the same user posts exactly the same question twice in a row.
Examples:
1 2. user asked twice for the probability of choosing 90% of the colors from a collection of ...
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Closing duplicate questions by the same poster
To close a question as duplicate it is now suggested that the original question should have an answer "this question has been asked before and already has an answer". Another circumstance arises quite ...
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Topics declared as duplicates in which order?
I'm asking this because I think an older question with a full answer shouldn't be declared a duplicate to a newer one. What the moderators think about this?
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Allow closing as duplicate for new questions
One of the changes to the closure system in the recent revamp was that to close something as a duplicate, the suggested duplicate needs to have an upvoted answer.
I suppose that's a good thing when ...
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Question not visible from certain computers
This sounds strange: when I go to the webpage The units of $\mathbb Z[\sqrt{2}]$, in the right pane, under "Linked", there is a link to the webpage Determine all units of the domain ...
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What is the definition of duplicate question?
Sometimes it happens that the answer to a question is contained in the answer to a different question.
Should the former question be closed as a duplicate?
Here's an example, (read the comments). ...
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What to do if my question is very similar to another but isn't answered there?
I have a doubt about the following: Suppose I want to ask some question, but Math.SE already has one that is very similar (say 90% similar). The chances that my question will be closed as duplicate ...
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Proposal to create a canonical “Solve this linear congruence” question & answer
I propose that we create a generalized question about solving linear congruences, and close all future questions on this topic as a duplicate of it. This strategy has been employed several times for ...
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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 ...
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How aggressively should we tag a question as duplicate?
Some questions seem standard and very likely to have already been asked. For example, a question on Prove Binet's Formula would almost certainly have been asked, even without referring to the links by ...
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Avoiding duplicates
I was wondering if I could ask a question on meta whether some question is on the site or not. I'm asking this since sometimes one might ask a duplicate question which he/she searched for and didn't ...
