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Multiple closure reasons
When someone votes to close a question, and I agree that it should be closed, but for a different reason, and the question ultimately is closed, the box displayed suggests that I agreed it should be ...
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Can't edit upon clicking “Edit” in a review
I was reviewing a possible "Low Quality Post" which could use some improved formatting. So I clicked "Edit" and got this screen:
So far, so good. But when I tried to edit the title or the body, I ...
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Why is my meta reputation lower on meta.math.SE? [duplicate]
I notice it's 10 points lower on meta.math.SE.
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Making a community wiki question from 2 book exercises
In Kaplansky's Set Theory & Metric Spaces, there is a section containing 19 exercises on Functions. The first two exercises describe one-to-one and onto properties. Can I make a community wiki ...
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How to Post Pictures in an Array/Table, on MSE, with MathJax
Is it possible to marshal multiple pictures in one question in an array or table?
For example, I'd like to piece together a 2 x 2 array from the following pictures. I essayed this but it foundered:
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1answer
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What's the difference between abstract algebra and group theory tag?
When should a question tagged with group theory (and is just on groups) be also tagged with abstract algebra?
The main reason I'm asking, is because I'm seeing a user make several edits to questions ...
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Is there a way to draw a graph (vertices & edges) in LaTeX on this website?
I googled and found how to do it in LaTeX software on your computer, but what about this website, possible to draw graphs as easy as writing out a matrix in LaTeX?
Failing that is there some website ...
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Increased frequency of close votes. Why vote to close this one?
Is it just my perception or is there a greatly increased frequency of votes to close as "off topic" for perfectly valid questions?
As an example, why in the world would you vote to close...
Space of ...
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Editing a contradiction between the title and text of a question
The OP posted a clearly worded question in the title, but the question in the text was quite different. In response to a comment, the OP made it clear that the text question was the intended one but ...
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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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Why don't we have a Coordinate Geometry tag?
I recently came across [this] question and thought that it should be tagged "Coordinate-Geometry". However, to my astonishment, no such tag exists. Why is it so?
I finally created that tag. I do not ...
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Can we have the suggested questions' titles parsed by default?
The suggested questions' titles here are not parsed:
I find this a bit odd, because they are indeed parsed in other scenarios, like this:
Why aren't the titles parsed when suggesting questions? ...
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Request from PRIMES to keep an eye out for their problems
As many of you may recall, last year there was a problem with someone cheating here on the entrance problem set for the PRIMES high school research program at MIT. Selection for PRIMES for this year ...
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Can we have tag icons?
Some tags on StackOverflow have icons, such as
and so on.
Question: Can we have tag icons here at maths.SE?
I mean "can" in the sense of "are we capable of having". I'm not saying we ...
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Comment removed… again
This isn't a question.
In this question I left a comment which I think went exactly like this: "This is horribly written and doesn't even make sense", obviously ...
