Questions tagged [close-reasons]
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Rules questions with “little” effort. Do we close these questions as off-topic or downvote?
Lately, a perspective regarding the effort put into rules questions (eg, lack of research) and how to handle these questions have come into question.
Do we close these questions as off-topic or ...
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Add a template close reason for autograph identification requests
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 ...
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Double Standards in Questions Containing Resource Requests
A few days ago I've asked a question, which I deleted after a while as it was closed as off-topic and it wasn't possible to improve it because anyways under current rules it would be still considered ...
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Range of localization for Sports questions
Just stumbled upon the closed question about professional car driving in India. It got closed as being too localized. Do we all agree on this sentiment?
edmastermind29 comments that
"Sports ...
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Issue with closing questions
I have a huge issue with certain individuals closing questions related to running stating that they are either subjective or belong in F&N. Running was my original proposal and the intent was to ...
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Is photo finder type questions on-topic?
I came across this question,
I don't think it's on-topic.
If it is off-topic, How to close it? Which reason suits it?
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Should autograph identification be a default reason to close?
Signature identification/verification is arguably the number 1 reason for closed questions on Sports SE.
Taking a quick look at the stats on closed posts, you can see that "Other" is the most common ...
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Should Questions regarding Unspecified Tournaments be Closed?
In Football/Soccer, There are Four degrees of organization, World > Continental > National > State/District. One example would be FIFA > UEFA > England/Spain/Portugal.
Each National Federation is ...
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Why was this question considered too broad?
I recently asked the following question: https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/5602/how-many-injuries-would-be-prevented-by-banning-slide-tackles
In order to narrow down the question, I provided ...
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Why “powers and duties of a referee” is put on hold as too broad?
Why this question is put on hold as too broad ?
I think it is well defined and has a proper answer.
I don't think this question has too many possible answers or too long answers.
What are the ...
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Inherit flags from “main” SE sites
On SO and SU, there is an off-topic flag specifically for marking questions which ask for product or service recommendations.
(Directly from SO)
Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, ...
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Are questions specifically asking about trivial illegal situations without being about rules allowed?
This question is asking about throw-ins thrown directly into a goal. Deflections or any other situations are not "allowed". So everything that would make it actually notable is ruled out.
In this ...
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Binary “yes or no” question voted 2 times to be closed as “too broad”
These votes to be closed really dont make sense to me. Any clarification?
Is there a "player of the year" award for international basketball?
