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At the moment, a question can have multiple duplicates linking back to it, but once you link backwards from a duplicate there's no way to link forward to later versions of the question....which makes it hard to find other possible answers.

I think it would be beneficial to have a list of all duplicates listed in a Duplicate Questions sidebar similar to the current Linked and Related sidebars. (Questions that are both linked and duplicates, as often happens, could be just listed as Duplicate.)

The Duplicate Questions sidebar could appear on the page with the original question, so that it links forward to any duplicate questions that have been answered. (Or it could appear on all pages that are duplicates of another, but this probably isn't necessary because the questions closed as duplicate already link backwards, even though they don't link to other duplicate versions.)

This feature would be particularly useful for questions that have been asked many times (and thus have a dozen different duplicates scattered throughout the site).

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    Duplicates should be a subset of "linked" questions. This isn't entirely true at the moment, but will be shortly.
    – Shog9
    Jun 7, 2013 at 13:29
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    This sounds like a very good idea, the one exception I would make is that duplicate questions with no answers shouldn't be included
    – Richard Tingle
    Jun 7, 2013 at 13:32
  • @RichardTingle Good point. I'll add that into my post now.
    – 3nafish
    Jun 7, 2013 at 13:33
  • Duplicate of this question on metaSO meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/313699/…
    – Michael Freidgeim
    Sep 24, 2017 at 21:19

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