Timeline for When is a duplicate question not a duplicate?
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| Mar 20, 2016 at 16:27 | comment | added | Mogsdad | As long as a closed/duplicate question remains undeleted, it's a trail marker for future users, that leads them to either the answer to their problem or a place to provide an answer that deals with a slight variation to a theme. Either way, the duplicate serves well when closed. | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 18:26 | comment | added | Michael Freidgeim | Is it very manual work? I expect single question with merged answers would be much better, than keep separate duplicated questions. | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 18:20 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Merging moves all the answers from one question to another, then locks the source, @Michael. It's used occasionally. | |
| Jun 9, 2013 at 18:18 | comment | added | Michael Freidgeim | @Shog9 what is the merge process? Do moderators use it now? | |
| Aug 5, 2009 at 16:17 | comment | added | Shog9 | @David: if they're the exact same question and both have good answers, then ask a moderator to merge them. | |
| Aug 4, 2009 at 21:19 | comment | added | David Thornley | So, what happens if I ask "How do I do X in C#?", Jon Skeet gives a great answer, and somebody noticed that somebody asked the exact same question when Jon was on vacation? Which should be the duplicate? | |
| Aug 4, 2009 at 18:15 | comment | added | Shog9 | Ideally, you'd have a whole bunch of closed duplicates, each asked in a different way, and all linking back to The One True Question that gives the answer... | |
| Aug 4, 2009 at 16:52 | comment | added | Binary Worrier | But in Closing a question, you're not automatically deleting it. If Some one find the closed question, it'll have a great big "Duplicate of [link]" banner if they follow the link they'll get the correct answer. Closed <> Deleted | |
| Aug 4, 2009 at 16:44 | history | answered | Sampson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |