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Allow 10k to vote to delete on locked rejected migrations [duplicate]

While wandering through Software Engineering Stack Exchange, sometimes a close vote finds its way onto a question from Stack Overflow that was migrated back in '11 and it gets closed. When this ...
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Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score questions after a year?

Related to Meta Super User efforts: Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes and Meta Server Fault efforts: Cleaning house, really old, unloved questions We already auto-remove ...
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Allow diamond moderators to reverse question migrations?

It has happened on occasion, due to the high amount of 10K moderators on SO that questions are migrated to the wrong site, and needs to be reversed. Although currently it is possible to re-open the ...
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Show lock banners on rejected migrations

When a migration gets rejected, it gets locked automatically. Auto-locking seems to be what happened with https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1473143/methods-to-stop-software-piracy. It behaves like ...
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What happened on December 9 and 10, 2016?

So I periodically grab data from the API and publicly report the statistics (according to this question I'm allowed to do that) and I noticed a really bizarre inconsistency with my graphs, but it was ...
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What is the reason for locking a question migrated from another site that is then closed?

When a question is migrated to another site, and it is then closed on the receiving site, it gets locked. This means the question is not editable, nor is it possible to vote to delete it. That is what ...
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When should rejected migrations not be deleted on the destination site?

I am proposing that in some circumstances a rejected migration should not be automatically deleted from the destination site. In the case where all of the following are true: The question has a ...
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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Do the votes count after a migration has been rejected?

I had asked a question about the US election on http://politics.stackexchange.com but it was migrated to http://skeptics.stackexchange.com Where it was downvoted, put on hold and rejected. My first ...
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How can we flag a migrated question?

Recent changes to question migrations change how question history is displayed. The link to the migration source site no longer leads to the question on the source site. Instead, it now links to the ...
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Questions that are migrated to a site and then closed as unclear, too broad, or primarily opinion-based should not be locked

When a question is posted on one site and then migrated to another, if it ends up closed for any reason, it ends up locked on the new site. That is, it can't be voted on or edited. A diamond moderator ...
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