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Options when question is duplicate of one with no/inadequate/old answers?
Seven ways to help revive/refresh a question (including closed questions), and its answers are by:
using the share button beneath the question to advertise it to your networks (no rep needed)
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PolyGeoMod
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What is the canonical question to close "layers with the same CRS not overlapping" questions as duplicate of?
The duplicate targets that I propose for such questions depend on the software being asked about:
for ArcMap, I use Layers with same coordinate system should align/overlap in ArcMap but do not?
for ...
PolyGeoMod
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Why was a question marked a duplicate of something asking for completely different information?
The best way to avoid this sort of closure is to include a paragraph in your question saying something like - I read the following answers and they help but are missing the exact measurement I need.
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Ian TurtonMod
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Cross-posting Duplicate Questions to Different Communities?
There is an excellent Meta SE Q&A about this:
Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?
In particular I think this quote ...
PolyGeoMod
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Flagging own question as duplicate or deleting it?
I think you should vote to close it as a duplicate which I think should take effect immediately.
That way it becomes another signpost to the same answer.
PolyGeoMod
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Reopen a post (marked as duplicated) on inserting layers to QGIS in a specific position
I've clarified the question title and afterwards reopened the question.
Along PolyGeo's lines, I would like to encourage everyone to help improve questions - especially by clarifying the question ...
underdarkMod
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Should GUI questions really be duplicates of coded solutions?
I prefer to treat questions about code separate from questions about the GUI of a GIS product too.
That is why I rarely support questions being coded as:
qgis and pyqgis; or
arcgis-desktop and ...
PolyGeoMod
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Marking a question as a duplicate of another one that doesn't have an accepted answer?
Moderators can mark questions as duplicates of Q&As with unaccepted answers. In this situation I would recommend flagging (which you did) for a moderator to mark one as a duplicate of the other.
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MidavaloMod
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How to get a question flagged without enough reputation to do so?
Thank you for bringing that to our attention. I have marked the second question as a duplicate. As you indicated, you need 15 reputation (source) to start flagging questions. This is to ensure that ...
AaronMod
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - GIS
This is certainly not your fault, but I cannot help wondering how much easier your project and our task would be if:
all of our question bodies had only a single question (indicated by the only ...
PolyGeoMod
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If reading the answers to another question solved a problem, does that definitively mean that the first question is a duplicate?
I think definitively is too strong of a word to use in conjunction with the duplicate process which has a lot of grey in it but, given that qualification, I would answer Yes, based on the answer to ...
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Deleting merged questions asked by the same OP?
In the answer to What is a "merged" question? it says:
If you believe a merge stub is no longer useful, flag it for moderator
attention and ask for it to be deleted.
I think that is ...
PolyGeoMod
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Undoing/retracting vote to reopen question that was closed as duplicate?
The ability to retract re-open votes is the subject of a feature request at Meta Stack Exchange - see Ability to retract reopen/delete votes.
It has been open for more than 5 years and appears not to ...
PolyGeoMod
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Deleting merged questions asked by the same OP?
This is not only about merged questions from same OP, but also about normal duplicates from same OP (i.e. self-duplicate questions).
The merged ones are a particular case because they are locked ...
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Cannot find duplicate using search in flagging dialog?
In the type-in field at the top I always paste the URL to the duplicate rather than its title.
I had not noticed the suggestion that a search could be used, though.
Rather than a bug I think it is ...
PolyGeoMod
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Make a former question a duplicate of a later one
On a few occasions I have made earlier poor questions into duplicates of later much better ones by a different user. I may even have done that for the same user using a single account over the course ...
PolyGeoMod
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Cannot find duplicate using search in flagging dialog?
Edit in response to OP's clarification in comment (but the answer is off-topic, now).
The reason why QGIS algorithm parameter can't be flagged as duplicate from QGIS Processing - Additional Creation ...
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Reopen a post (marked as duplicated) on inserting layers to QGIS in a specific position
I am not planning to try and judge whether or not the first (later) question has been correctly made a duplicate of the second (earlier) question.
However, I will offer some procedural advice.
If ...
PolyGeoMod
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Re-opening question about Installing PostGIS into schema other than public?
Yes, obviously the question that my question was deliberately duplicating should not have been closed and thus should be re-opened. The question that should be re-opened is the opposite of the ...
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Confused about the rules
Without links to the particular Q&As that have led to your confusion it is not possible to give specific advice.
If a thread is months or years old and doesn't have a clear answer (or
any ...
PolyGeoMod
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Flagging own question as duplicate or deleting it?
Perhaps there was a reason you did not find the other question.
So, besides what @PolyGeo answered, I suggest always try editing the duplicate question for readability and searchability (title, body ...
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Asking same question for newer version?
Even though the well-written, and interesting, new question contains new information, I think what we are trying to achieve is to have a "timeless" question that can nevertheless have multiple answers ...
PolyGeoMod
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - GIS
The project is drawing to a close, and I am planning to take down the annotation interface this weekend.
Thank you very much to everyone who helped out, and thank you for all the valuable feedback ...
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Question closed as a duplicate - points instead of two shapefiles
Question reopened by @Mapperz per comment:
Not sure why 4 users deemed it a duplicate, different data, have
re-opened.
MidavaloMod
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Why was a question marked a duplicate of something asking for completely different information?
I have not voted on the duplicate status for your question on Main because I do not have the skillset to determine whether or not it is a duplicate of Why is law of cosines more preferable than ...
PolyGeoMod
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Avoiding duplicate creation of old question to elicit new answers?
Hum...just found myself the answer to my own question : set up a bounty on the question will pull it up and attract attention to it. I guess asking the question brought the answer to my brain :)
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What is the canonical question to close "layers with the same CRS not overlapping" questions as duplicate of?
For GeoPandas questions, I suggest: the following question which uses gdf.set_crs(epsg=projected_crs) to try and reproject a GeoDataset from geographic instead of to_crs
GeoPandas Spatial Join of ...
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Marking a question as a duplicate of another one that doesn't have an accepted answer?
From my reading of Meta SE posts like We should be able to close questions as duplicates of any question it seems that you should be able to vote to close as a duplicate as long as it has at least one ...
PolyGeoMod
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Determining duplicates when original has no accepted answer?
My answer assumes that the three questions that you have cited all represent the same issue and that there is no debate about whether they should be duplicates. Consequently, I think your question is ...
PolyGeoMod
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