Timeline for Requests for reopen and undelete votes for closed and deleted questions
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| Jul 9, 2016 at 12:07 | history | edited | Lucia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 1, 2016 at 18:46 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @Gerry (and Carlo) Moderators do have the power to merge questions after one is closed as the duplicate of the other. I imagine this functionality is less known since there is simply less call for it on this site. Merging question will delete and lock one of the copies and transfer all comments/answers to the other copy. It is actually used quite a bit on Math.SE. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 10:58 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | What I had in mind, Carlo, was that the people who posted to the one thread could just copy their posts and paste them on the other. Or, someone (you?) could do that for them (giving full credit, of course, and making the answers CW, if desired). But, yes, I think that moderators can do that for questions closed as duplicates. Once the answers are transferred, by whatever means, I'd think the one question could be deleted, no harm done. | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 6:35 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | @GerryMyerson --- I don't know of a way to transfer answers + comment thread from one question to another (put perhaps the moderators have this capability); in any case, I thought that closing rather than deleting the question is the way to proceed with duplicates, isn't this how we have always done it? | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 23:24 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | It's not clear to me why answers to the question in question can't just be posted as answers to the earlier linked question 61408. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 7:22 | comment | added | Lucia | I agree. Closing a question still leaves it visible, and deleting seems uncalled for except in extreme cases. | |
| Jun 30, 2016 at 6:48 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jun 30, 2016 at 6:40 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Jun 30, 2016 at 6:40 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Carlo Beenakker |