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This tag is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are exact duplicates of another question.
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How to handle my duplicates
Please vote to close as a duplicate. Only if it's really very similar, such as literally the same, it may be deleted. The reason is, that a duplicate which is different can still lead users to the ori …
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Duplicates and closing questions.
Duplicates are often created by new users, naturally. Closing, which is a standard procedure, might feel harsh for users who yet don't know that site's practice of doing. …
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Can we expand the "How to look up a math symbol" to all kinds of symbols?
Other questions, which would become duplicates this way (and possibly are less generic) can be closed, possibly answers merged. …
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Quick & easy reputation vs. flagging a question as duplicate
And yes, the reputation system honors answering duplicates, sadly. However, I would say, the real reputation among TeX.SE users would not raise if they see somebody answering obvious duplicates. …
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Deleting duplicate questions
A waiting time between closing the exact duplicate and removing is good. Once the question has been closed, it's protected and pointing to the right place. The questioner is still able to read the com …
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Downvoting duplicates?
Thanks Alan for bringing this up!
Please don't downvote a question just because it's a duplicate. It can happen that a duplicate is even better written than the earlier question.
Only downvote if the …
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