Questions tagged [too-localized]
The old close reason to indicate that the question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.
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Responding to your "too localized" concerns
As part of our closing overhaul, we've moved, reorganized, and renamed a number of close reasons, including too localized. While that change was informed both by widespread misuse of the reason and ...
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What questions should be closed with reason "too localized"? [duplicate]
What is the definition of "too localized" for closing a question? I see several suggestions, but nothing definitive or specific.
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Questions linking to external web sites instead of showing code
I notice a steady stream questions in the HTML and CSS tags that point to a site or CSS style sheet, and describe a problem without incorporating any code into the question.
A few random examples:
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Now that too localized is gone should we embrace the "typo questions"? [closed]
The old "too localized" closing reason included "questions that are unlikely to help future visitors". It was generally agreed, that if a question resulted from a typo in the OP code those questions ...
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Consider changing the wording of the "too localized" close reason
The "too localized" close reason currently reads:
This question is unlikely to ever help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or ...
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Should syntax error questions be closed as too localized after being answered?
Do we benefit from keeping syntax-error questions open? If not, should those be closed?
Many questions that are of the "this is not working" kind (insert language tag you want here), end up being ...
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Are questions solved by fixing a typo or basic syntax error "too localized"? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should questions where a problem arose from a typo be closed?
Questions solved by fixing the OP's typo are pretty common. Here's one I recently came across:
https://...
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Should old questions that are no longer relevant be closed as too localized (meta)? [closed]
Meta is way more affected by time than the other sites. There are a lot of questions that are not useful anymore (example).
Should we close them as too localized?
It seems correct according to the ...
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Should I refrain from answering a question if it is "too localized"?
Earlier I answered this question which later got closed because it is "too localized". I can see that argument (nobody else will ever run into the same SyntaxError ever again) so I am OK with that. ...
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Is the "too localized" description inconsistent with the community's de facto standards?
I find that of all the "close" reasons, "too localized" is the one with the highest ratio of "times it applies," to "times questions are closed because of it." Which leads me to believe that the ...
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Should a question where the question artificially rules out several good options be closed as "Too Localized"
For example, a user asks "I'm trying to solve this threading problem but I don't want to use lock() or interlocked.increment and I want a one line solution".
It seems like this isn't going to be ...
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Is a localized tag acceptable on Stackoverflow?
In a few weeks my undergraduate students will be encouraged to ask questions on Stackoverflow. My students will have been told to search for related answers before asking questions.
As a ...
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"Too Localized" a reason to close, but not in the FAQ
Since "too localized" is a valid reason to close a question, this should be mentioned in the FAQ.
https://stackoverflow.com/faq
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Question closed because was too localized
This question was closed because was too localized.
I haven't understood why, this guy has posted the code and the code wasn't working. Why not let it be answered? I voted to reopen it, but could ...
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A rule of thumb to tell if a question on topic or not?
For ages I have used this rule of thumb:
Would be this question of any help for someone else?
If not, it's off-topic.
But recently the "too localized" term was removed from the close-vote reasons,...
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Why was the flag for other: "Too Localized, ..." for this question declined?
I flagged this question as "Too localized. The problem was a syntax error of misplacing a quote.", but my flag was rejected.
To be able to flag correctly in the future, I would like to understand why ...
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How should we deal with "How can I access this value of this nested data structure...." questions?
In the javascript and php tags (probably in others as well), a common problem seems to be how to access specific data structures (arrays, objects). Here is an example.
How should we deal with this ...
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How should I treat a question which the asker just should have tried?
Sometimes I encounter questions on Stack Overflow where it appears that the asker should have just tried the code for themselves. Fer example, I've seen questions such as (in its simplest form):
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Self realization of a simple mistake rendering my question "too localized"
I posted a question on Stack Overflow, giving some details about a situation I did not understand. A couple of people offered help and suggestions ; however, after a while I realized my problem came ...
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How to handle questions about alpha software, Android Studio in particular
With the recent release of Android Studio v0.1, there are a lot of questions with the android-studio tag, and a lot of them are duplicates or have the answer "It's alpha software, it's not supposed to ...
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Should more questions be closed as Too Localized, than Not A Real Question?
I recently found this question.
In case it gets deleted, it's basically a huge wall of text and the author gives us some compiler error and asks how to fix it.
Now, my question is this: Is this Not ...
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Should closing as "too localized" require knowledge of the question's area?
I'm thinking of questions like this one. Yes, DOS is not commonly used but FreeDOS is still being developed, DJGPP still publishes new releases and there is still interesting work going on in that ...
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Close as Too Localized when the error message is a specific and exact pointer to the problem?
As has been discussed at least a few times, simple syntax errors are generally closed as Too Localized. The community's common practice seems to have coalesced around this more and more in the past 6 ...
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What does "Too Localized" mean as a justification for closing a question? [duplicate]
Hello all,
I'd like more information as to why a question deemed Localized is grounds for closing.
An example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1460190/sun-java-certification-exam-from-bangladesh/...
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Can't understand close reason - Too localized
This is the thread I am concerned about. It is closed, saying it is too localized.
And it says
Too localized:
This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only
relevant to a small ...
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Self delete or expire time sensitive questions
Some questions get closed because they are perceived as time sensitive (including 1-2 of mine). I see other questions that are open which I, then, consider as time sensitive like those hard drive ...
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