Timeline for Retract a question when its resolution comes out to be trivial and some premise in title is likely wrong?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Sep 19, 2017 at 12:29 | answer | added | Neal | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 12:26 | answer | added | Neal | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 12:24 | answer | added | Neal | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 12:22 | answer | added | Neal | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 11, 2017 at 7:48 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Someone should make an answer out of these comments. | |
| Sep 10, 2017 at 17:20 | comment | added | Neal | Unless there's some hidden cost, I would suggest it's a community service to leave such questions available. They will likely occur to more than one person in the future -- better for the community to have "it's trivial" recorded as an answer with explanation. | |
| Sep 8, 2017 at 19:25 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | Why not make it community wiki? | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 12:42 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | @Joel - this is a very good suggestion, thank you for that idea | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 12:08 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | When I am wondering whether I should delete a post of some kind, I add a comment saying "Vote this comment up if I should delete." If it gets some votes, then I take that as evidence to delete. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 17:23 | comment | added | Gottfried Helms | Good advice, @Gerhard ! Hmm, perhaps I can do some edit to make a lesson out of it. But still I'm rather tempted to take it away - I'll look at it again tomorrow. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | I had a somewhat similar occurrence (mathoverflow.net/q/155114). I chose to put an edit at the beginning asking for the community to decide. I think the connection (though wrong) is interesting and worth preserving, especially if you can return to it and show how it inspired later work. Gerhard "Good Mistakes Are Worth Keeping" Paseman, 2017.09.06. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 6:49 | history | asked | Gottfried Helms | CC BY-SA 3.0 |