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This tag is for instructions and guidance on closing or migrating questions, and the reasons for those closures.

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Remove mentions of other sites in off topic reasons

Using Stack Overflow as the example here, but this could easily apply to any other site in the network. Currently, we have the following off-topic close reasons on Stack Overflow (emphasis mine): …
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Can I have a straight up *real* off topic reason for moderators only?

I recently came across this piece of spam: Now, it's spam, and it's been deleted, but a lot of times, we get questions that are just plain off topic by legitimate users, and not suitable for any ot …
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Should duplicates of closed questions be closed as duplicates or closed for the same reason ...

There is this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73185/what-is-your-favorite-build-server-package-cruise-control-team-city-etc#question Which is really a duplicate of this question: http …
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