When a question starting with a blockquote gets closed as a dupe, the automatically inserted "Possible duplicate(s)" block and the original quote block end up as one.
I suggest adding an additional empty (or not) comment to the auto-insert:
> **Possible Duplicate:** > [“viewed 1 times”](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/20683/viewed-1-times) <!-- End of automatically inserted text --> > 1 Questions