Bad link provided to a question already identified as a duplicate

Question

Thanks to the responses from users in one of my recent meta question, I have discovered that having questions flagged as duplicates isn't always a bad thing. It's in fact a good way of adding new keywords and diagnostic information to potentially make a problem easier to find.

Ironically, however, my most recent question to date (Biblatex and Beamer and IEEE problems) was a perfect example of a duplicate solution so narrowly described in the original question, that it never appeared in my searches, so rather than delete it, I linked it to the duplicate, and voted to close. Unfortunately, in the confirming votes to close it, some bad advice was offered with someone adding a link to a 100% unrelated question.

Now because I can't edit this, I am debating whether I should delete the question because the addition of this link reduces the usefulness of this duplicate as a way of accepting more keywords to direct a future user to the solution they need.

Answer 1

Option 1

From the perspective of the community, the Stack Exchange system (or interface) allows for correcting this:

1. Cast enough re-open votes to remove any closure statements from the post.

2. Re-cast close-votes using the appropriate duplicate.

I would further suggest that the process could be sped up when collaborating with the folks in chat. There are typically enough users hanging around with vote-to-re-open and vote-to-close privileges.

Option 2

Contact a moderator (in chat, if needed) and request the change. They can unilaterally re-open and subsequently close the question as a duplicate.

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Leaving the post as-is with two references to possible duplicates together with a comment about one of them being incorrect solves the problem at the source (to some extent). However, it doesn't fix the problem at the duplicate targets, as they will still link back to your post.