Questions tagged [close-reasons]
The close-reasons tag has no usage guidance.
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Is Vote to Close as Off-Topic an appropriate remedy for questions that are deemed too “populist”?
Background: There are users who have been using the privilege to vote to close a question as off-topic as a way of dealing with "populist" questions (see the discussion here) believing them to be "...
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Vote to reopen my question
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Physical transformation associated with a Pseudo-Orthogonal matrix
I was closed because of a unclear ques. Now I have reworded it, it is more ...
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The mainstream-physics close reason has a link to meta with the user ID of a moderator. Can it be removed?
Basically, what it says on the tin. The mainstream-physics closure dialog, which is accessible on the closure dialog as well as on closed questions (example), contains a link to the mainstream-physics ...
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Reopen request - Question about water splash on impact
This question was closed under the presumption of being off topic for being a homework-like question. Honestly, I cant see how this question is either off topic or a homework question since it ask a ...
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Reopen request on a recently closed question
I would like to have this question reopened.
In contrast to the users who expressed their apparent confusion, I found the question to be very clear. It also seems like one that would get a whole lot ...
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Reserving the use of the 'non-mainstream' close reason
In my opinion, the purpose of the 'non-mainstream' close reason is for non-mainstream theories. It's for people who have invented their own theory of everything, put it on Vixra, self-published a book ...
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What to flag for “lack of basic research” questions? [duplicate]
There have been a variety of questions that shouldn't be allowed under current site rules because they are very clearly lacking basic research - 2 minutes on google would probably help them with their ...
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I request to write reason if you are marking a question as duplicate to other question
I recently asked a question:
Why not Sun's gravity affect angular momentum of Earth?
Then QMechanic, a moderator of this web site marked my question as a duplicate of:
Tidal force of Sun?
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Can this Q be reopened for answering?
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/391682/
Closed as too broad, but - see comments - there is scope for a good answer. I'd have written more (times, energies), but comments aren't the right place ...
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Why was this question closed on grounds of being unclear?
I don't understand why this question was closed? Especially why on grounds of being unclear? It was quite clear, was it not?
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This has been bothering me for a while, and I'd like to speak up about it. I see, with a much higher frequency than I would like, comments that look, with rather little variation, like
This ...
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Did my question deserve a hold?
Background: I've been using several SE sites for several years now. I am used to their systems and strict rules, respect them, and try to obey as much as possible. However I do not understand this on-...
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Is it possible to expand the list of migration sites for off-topic posts?
Recently, it seems that we've been getting several questions that would be more appropriate for Cross Validated. This question is only the most recent example.
Right now, the only choices for off-...
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Why has my question been put “On Hold”?
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Could you help me please with mathematical model of the soil freezing process?
I got it (I fix my question)
Why is it "On Hold"?
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About the formula wants (Let everyone read this)
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Kepler's Third Law
Why did my question become off-topic? I just wanted to get a formula and said that I will solve it myself. Why aren't ...
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Mainstream physics closed as non-mainstream
This (admittedly naive) question (asking whether the existence of tachyons would have observable consequences) seems to me to be clearly about mainstream physics, though it was closed as non-...
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Should close notices be more specific?
Recently I've asked an off-topic question: How to plot forcing oscillation with damping correctly?. The close notice has only one line of instruction:
This question does not appear to be about ...
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Closing Deleted Duplicates
When looking at this question you can see discussion about the closure of this question.
Specifically, it quickly got custom flagged as "Duplicate of deleted question by the same user."
In terms of ...
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Not unclear if there's an answer
I have noticed the "unclear what you're asking" close reason misused multiple times (if asked, I can provide links, but I can think of many). However, there was one recent case that made me write this ...
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Are request-learning-path questions off topic? Why?
I was looking at a previous meta question regarding whether certain types of questions requesting a learning-path, or resource-recommendation, or any learning-related-things are off topic or not. I ...
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This site is not a scientific writting forum/publication support service?
I came across this question:
The proper use of the terminology of forces and interactions in The Theory of Relativity
which I have a feeling should be off-topic, but I cannot really localize a ...
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How to provide working for the question if we don't even know how to proceed in a question?
Most of the time when people ask Homework Related questions they are put on hold.They ask for our work on the question.
Sometimes we all face the situation that we don't even know how to proceed ...
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How to change the close reasons about offtopic engineering posts to contain the link to the Engineering SE?
On this meta post, we have a consensus that it would be useful to link to the Engineering SE on closed engineering questions.
It requires a proper wording approved by the community.
The current ...
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Why my question is put on hold?
I've posted one question here Please guide me. This question is related to electrical self energy from electrostatic but it was put on hold because it was a homework question. So I edited it following ...
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Unclear What You're Asking
I recently posted a question closely related to (but not identical to) this one. I promise not to continue posting variants.
That said: I have just voted to close this question as "unclear what ...
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Homework Policy and what justifies closure
Reading through questions on the Q&A Stackexchange, I came across this Question regarding rotational mechanics. I'd been confused a few other times in the past by homework closures and had come to ...
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Reasons for Closing
First: I realize there has been a lot of discussion of the reasons for closing, and I haven't followed most of it, so I apologize for any redundancy here.
That having been said: Here is an example ...
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Misuse of custom close reasons
I was going through the close review queue, I saw the question
Satellite is brought to the earth’s surface, it hits the earth with a velocity of 4 km/s - Determine the work done by friction [on hold] ...
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Can anyone please re-examine this question?
Can people please reopen this question.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/290723/
Or can they give me a reason as to why it is an off-topic question?
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How do I make this question specific enough to be opened?
The title is Methodology used in Climate models
This is annoying and I hate to do this, but I am looking for answers from experts working in the field who have spent several years studying this ...
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Why was my question closed as too broad?
My question Evidence indicating that CO2 is responsible for Global warming was closed as being too broad.
There are many research papers on the topic, however it is a very specific question. If you ...
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Please re-examine this question
I'd like to strongly suggest the Phys.SE community to carefully re-examine the following question and the reasons it was put on hold or regarded as not a good enough question:
Finding the period of ...
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I don't understand what is “unclear” with my question
I have a question about my Physics Stack Exchange post: Possible reactionless drive
My question is [on hold] as "unclear what you're asking".
From my analysis the system should work and start to ...
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Put on hold and rephrasing the question
OK - so I rephrase the question to highlight the physics content as suggested and... zilch. It still stays on hold.
So the only option appears to be to re-post the revised question under a different ...
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Why was this question closed as “non-mainstream” when it asked about mainstream physics?
Is this an adequate resolution of the "paradox" of the arrow of time?
This question was closed on the grounds that it is not "mainstream physics", and I was referred to this page. That ...
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A question put on hold one and half years after it was asked
A question was asked by someone in March 2015. It had 4 answers.
I added a (fifth) answer on 26th Sep, 2016 (18 months later) and the question was put on hold the next day.
Can someone please ...
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Note: why the migration close reasons are stronger as the others
This question is now closed as offtopic on 2 reasons:
It is mainly math, although its markup and formulation clearly shows the described problem is a physical problem. The current review practice is ...
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Why was my question closed as off-topic?
I recently asked a question about a real phenomenon I saw at the end of a documentary, I can't help that at the time the only thing I could find on it was at the end of this documentary which isn't ...
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Off-topic: what is it for?
I am a relatively new member of the site and haven't spent enough time to read through rules and meta posts yet to really understand how it all works. So when I see the occasional discussion in the ...
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Why is this question about measurement off-topic?
The question Reliable length scales in nature has been received very poorly, for reasons I don't really understand. In the help center, it is stated that questions concerning "Experimental designs ...
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How to get explanation why question is unclear?
I have had a big problem over many months with a question. I try to tell the story as factually as possible. Help is appreciated. Here we go...
I asked a question on Jan 27 at 14:29.
It was closed ...
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Asking moderators favors when looking at questions
Some of my questions were on-hold and closed. As everyone knows, it comes a yellow rectangle where it explains what it means and why is your question not so good.
For example:
Sometimes, this ...
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Why is this post against the guidelines and especially not about physics itself?
The context is the following question:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/242632/84895 (10K link only, partial screenshot here)
As the title stays, this got a lot of downvotes and got put on hold ...
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Incosistent policy on “homework” questions
Recently I asked a question on physics stack exchange. It was closed with a reference to faq guidelines.
Here is the question that was closed: Maximum period of a vertically spinning ball.
Please ...
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How do I ask a question about the state of current research without falling in the “primarily opinion-based” category"?
My questions are getting closed a lot as "primarily opinion-based", which I understand might be entirely my fault.
One thing I don't quite understand is why this question got put on hold. I was ...
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Car Color-Temperature Duplicate Declined
The question from today How much difference to interior temperature would a white car roof make? says essentially "My car is hot so I'm thinking of painting the roof white. How much would that affect ...
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Why was my question, about a collection of textbooks to use to prepare for QFT, closed?
It was called "Need A Collection Textbooks To Use As Stepping Stones to QFT" In my mind, asking about a "no-nonsense intro to QFT" and asking for a set of textbooks together which would prepare one to ...
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Why has my question been closed?
Why has my question, entitled Automobile Air Bags, been closed?
This really leaves me baffled.
I've asked a conceptual question regarding the question above ,I've shown my efforts to understand it,I'...
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Can we stop closing questions as “unclear what you are asking” for OPs above certain reputation?
I just recently asked a question which got "on hold" because it was unclear. So I read the related meta-posts, i.e.
Please, don't close questions as unclear because of bad english. Repair them ...
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My question was held off by vote for wrong reasons
I was asking for a clarification.
My question was not Homework type.
I had worked out a solution myself.
