Timeline for Deleting questions marked as 'too localized' or 'not a real question'
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| Jan 13, 2013 at 16:04 | comment | added | David Carlisle | As I commented to Joseph in chat I'm unconvinced that users search before asking questions so I'm unconvinced that it is that important whether the answers are findable. | |
| Jan 13, 2013 at 15:57 | comment | added | egreg | @DavidCarlisle Some errors are less trivial than others, so the criterion is not "simple error=delete". However, one has to consider also that these questions are difficult to find with a search, unless their title is clear and tags are appropriate. | |
| Jan 13, 2013 at 13:55 | comment | added | David Carlisle |
If someone is confused enough by an error message to post a question it can't be completely obvious. We should have one answer for it and close others as duplicate in the normal way, we shouldn't close questions for having easy answers. For the first one you get Runaway argument? {is wrong with the font \par .... ! File ended while scanning use of \emph . <inserted text> \par Which nowhere mentions a closing brace and for people not used to compiler editor messages, such messages are simply scary rather than informative.
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| Jan 13, 2013 at 10:14 | history | answered | egreg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |