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This question is mainly motivated by the following case, which I have just noticed on Stack Overflow:

The Python question was posted on April 21, but got closed and ultimately deleted on May 1. Unfortunately there were some pretty good answers in there, especially the top-voted one by ghostdog74ghostdog74, which I am sure took plenty of time and effort to write and revise.

The JavaScript question was posted 12 hours after the Python one, and received roughly the same amount of answers, of similar quality, especially the accepted answer by CMSCMS. However, in this case nobody bothered to cast a single close vote, but more importantly, the JavaScript question is still there for public reference, unlike the Python version which got deleted.

I understand that both question are subjective, and probably should have been a community wiki, but I find it difficult to consider them argumentative or off topic.

So my question is, should we vote to close the JavaScript question so that we delete it, or should we vote to reopen the Python version?

This question is mainly motivated by the following case, which I have just noticed on Stack Overflow:

The Python question was posted on April 21, but got closed and ultimately deleted on May 1. Unfortunately there were some pretty good answers in there, especially the top-voted one by ghostdog74, which I am sure took plenty of time and effort to write and revise.

The JavaScript question was posted 12 hours after the Python one, and received roughly the same amount of answers, of similar quality, especially the accepted answer by CMS. However, in this case nobody bothered to cast a single close vote, but more importantly, the JavaScript question is still there for public reference, unlike the Python version which got deleted.

I understand that both question are subjective, and probably should have been a community wiki, but I find it difficult to consider them argumentative or off topic.

So my question is, should we vote to close the JavaScript question so that we delete it, or should we vote to reopen the Python version?

This question is mainly motivated by the following case, which I have just noticed on Stack Overflow:

The Python question was posted on April 21, but got closed and ultimately deleted on May 1. Unfortunately there were some pretty good answers in there, especially the top-voted one by ghostdog74, which I am sure took plenty of time and effort to write and revise.

The JavaScript question was posted 12 hours after the Python one, and received roughly the same amount of answers, of similar quality, especially the accepted answer by CMS. However, in this case nobody bothered to cast a single close vote, but more importantly, the JavaScript question is still there for public reference, unlike the Python version which got deleted.

I understand that both question are subjective, and probably should have been a community wiki, but I find it difficult to consider them argumentative or off topic.

So my question is, should we vote to close the JavaScript question so that we delete it, or should we vote to reopen the Python version?

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Would you delete these questions? Isn’t closing enough?

This question is mainly motivated by the following case, which I have just noticed on Stack Overflow:

The Python question was posted on April 21, but got closed and ultimately deleted on May 1. Unfortunately there were some pretty good answers in there, especially the top-voted one by ghostdog74, which I am sure took plenty of time and effort to write and revise.

The JavaScript question was posted 12 hours after the Python one, and received roughly the same amount of answers, of similar quality, especially the accepted answer by CMS. However, in this case nobody bothered to cast a single close vote, but more importantly, the JavaScript question is still there for public reference, unlike the Python version which got deleted.

I understand that both question are subjective, and probably should have been a community wiki, but I find it difficult to consider them argumentative or off topic.

So my question is, should we vote to close the JavaScript question so that we delete it, or should we vote to reopen the Python version?