Add a template close reason for autograph identification requests

Question

The moderator tools show that, in the last 90 days, out of 48 questions closed with custom close reasons, 31 are autograph identification questions. This number is greater than questions closed as duplicates (18) or primarily opinion-based (15).

Which means autograph identification requests are the top reason for closure on our site. That's why I suggest the mods to add a template for it (something which has been done on other SE sites):

Identification questions are off-topic, because they tend to attract low-quality and low-effort posts. The community has decided to no longer support these questions. Please refer to this meta post for additional details.

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The request below is for SO employees. To implement something like this for us sometime in the future when they are not too busy:

On Movies and TV Stack Exchange, a warning message pops up telling users that they don't accept identification questions. A similar thing would be very helpful for us as well.

Answer 1

I had hoped that closing autograph identification questions as they arrived on the site would stop the flow of questions. However, that obviously hasn't happened so I agree this would be a good idea.

The only slight flaw is that a site can have only three custom close reasons, and ours are already taken up with:

• Questions on outdoor activities unrelated to a specific, competitive sport are off-topic here, but can be asked on The Great Outdoors Stack Exchange.
• General health and medical advice is off-topic here; you should contact a qualified medical professional instead.
• Questions on exercise and fitness unrelated to a specific, competitive sport are off-topic here, but can be asked on Physical Fitness Stack Exchange.

The stats here are frankly not very useful - in the past 90 days, the first of those reasons has been used three times and the other two twice each. These are all significantly less than the approximately 20 autograph identification questions we've had, so one of them should go. In reality, what tends to happen to outdoor or exercise and fitness questions is that a moderator migrates them to the appropriate site, so those reasons are probably less useful than the "health and medical advice" reason; I also think it's important to keep the "health and medical advice" reason so that we have less chance of giving people actually dangerous advice.

I would personally be tempted to remove the "outdoor activities" reason as my feeling is that, despite the stats for the past 90 days, we get more exercise and fitness questions, but I'm open to persuasion on this one.