Questions tagged [duplicates]
For questions about what counts as a duplicate, identification of duplicates, their implications and how to reduce their incidence. Note the tag [exact-duplicates] may be more appropriate for some questions.
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We need to be more careful about closing questions as duplicates
The following 3 questions:
https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/28/cheapest-mobile-operator-in-europe
https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/390/how-can-i-use-my-us-iphone-att-in-a-foreign-...
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Schengen overview community wiki to avoid duplicates
We are getting a lot of visa questions here and the high number of already existing questions and answers makes it hard to keep track at times.
My feeling after being on the site for a while is that ...
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Adding detail to existing "encyclopedic" questions - a proposal
We seem to have some "encyclopedic" question on the site, that are intended to cover a wide variety of situations. I see a strong tendency to close questions even remotely related to these "...
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US visas overview community wiki to avoid duplicates
We see quite a few questions on B1-B2 visas, would it be helpful to create a community wiki along the lines of the existing wikis for Schengen and the UK?
Schengen overview community wiki to avoid ...
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Question does not get answered by duplicate
This question: I have booked a flight from the USA to China and am a dual national. How do I avoid China getting to know this?
It got marked as a duplicate, but as I pointed out in the comments, the ...
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UK visas overview community wiki to avoid duplicates
We are getting a lot of UK visa questions here and the high number of already existing questions and answers makes it hard to keep track at times. Let's create a community wiki to track all the ...
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Should we dupe-close questions that are older than their duplicate?
In my review queue I recently find a lot of old questions (> 2 years say) that are to be closed as duplicates. With most of them I agree in principle, but the relevant text when closing questions as ...
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Editing an older answer and subsequently marking a newer question as a duplicate
In context of this question of mine that was closed as a duplicate, I have a few questions:
1) What is the policy on editing the accepted answer to an older question and then marking a new question ...
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