Questions tagged [specific-question]
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How to improve this closed question so it is recovered?
How to edit this question, so it is reopened:
I already tried: added references, more background information, responded to comments, adjusted the question accordingly to clarify it, added a ...
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Why was this particular topology question closed? [duplicate]
Two weeks ago I asked this question about general topology. The question was well received (got a score up to 5) with interesting comments in return and also a very interesting answer. And then ...
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Unable to delete question that was posted after attempting to discard draft.
I clicked "discard draft" and it posted the question anyways.
I am unable to comment on the question, delete it, flag it, or close it.
I am able to edit it.
What am I supposed to do?
I can&#...
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Why does this question get especially more downvotes?
My question here has a total score of $-1$. Although I am not sure how many upvotes and downvotes there exactly are, I find the number of downvotes unexpectedly high. The main reason is that I have ...
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It is impossible for me to ask a question. [duplicate]
All my questions have been closed, the last one:
Torus minimal simplicial triangulation [closed]. The reason needs to be clarified, but my question is simple: why is the triangulation I used wrong? Is ...
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Why does this question have close votes within minutes?
Solve $\int_a^\infty \Phi(x+z) f(x) dx $ (standard normal)
To anyone with experience with probability and normal random variables the question is well defined.
Why does it receive multiple close votes ...
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Why this question was closed as *Seeking personal advice*?
Today, while reviewing this post, I noticed that three users voted to close it as "Seeking personal advice". However, it's quite clear to me that the appropriate reason should have been &...
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What does it mean when a question "needs more detail or clarity"?
I would like to know why this question was closed (not my question, but I did answer it). Based on this help center article about closed questions, the only possible reason I can see is that the ...
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How is this not a single question?
My question has been closed because it is allegedly not a single question. But the question in fact consists of one sentence, how it is not "single"?
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What does 'additional context' mean?
The question here was closed as requiring additional context, but I'm not sure what that context could be; it contains the problem source, a description of progress on a solution, and an attempted ...
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What should one do if a question keeps getting rejected to reopen without any explanation?
Today, I saw a question in the "Reopen Votes" queue asked by a user. The question had been closed due to a lack of detail. As I don't know much about number theory, I couldn't really ...
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Why is this question not focused enough?
There is a question here that I answered almost three months ago, and it is now closed because the question is not focused enough. Can someone please tell me why it is so as the question seems clear ...
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What is wrong with this question (deleted by CommunityBot)?
Recently, this was deleted by CommunityBot with comment "User 1648291 destroyed" in activity of the post. I don't know what does it mean. This question is discussing Terence Tao's Claim 1 in ...
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About deletions of answers outside of ones field.
I gave a partial answer of this question asked by "Plantation" at the request of "Plantation":
Globally generateness of an $\mathcal{O}_X$-module implies the surjectivity of the ...
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My question has been closed and it said off-topic but I don't understand why [duplicate]
So I have been learning permutations and combinations and I mostly have tried it on my own and when I could no longer come to a solution only then did I take help from here. My question was closed and ...
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