This tag refers to all questions deleted from Stack Exchange sites. The tag 'specific-question' should also be used when referencing a specific question that has been deleted.
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Problem in posting my questiom
Yesterday I have posted a question then I deleted today. Right after I tried to repost my question with a different title because somehow I wasn't specific.
The problem is that I can't post it anymore ...
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Why was this question deleted?
I'm just curious, beyond the loss of 65 points.
Bayes' Theorem question
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Is there need to patrol for deleted questions?
In a recent discussion Mariano Suárez-Alvarez told us, that if we are aware of users, who delete their questions after receiving an answer, we should bring them to the attention of mods. (IIRC the OP ...
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Why do some users delete their questions after receiving an answer?
It has happened several times now that a question is deleted by its author a few minutes after I post an answer.
I suspect it's because the question is a homework question and the user wants to ...
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Question on a deleted question, google's cache and SE betas…
As I opened my account today I found:
hmm, ok. I tried to have a look at it, without success. Ok that was expected.
Then I tried the Advanced Ninja Search, resp the Google search.
The question was ...
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Can I view all recent deletions, especially self-deleted questions?
A few minutes ago I put a comment on a question by http://math.stackexchange.com/users/50707/kalima asking where he found his problem. The problem was something along the lines of Diophantine $4 a^2 ...
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Deleted questions
I had previously posted some questions, and they have now been deleted without notice. I am not certain of what happened to them. If I could be shown the questions and given an explanation by a ...
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Reposting a (mathematical) question that disappeared
Yesterday I posted a comment on a recent math.SE question that interested me, suggesting a "perhaps.. fruitful" approach. Later with a bit more insight I looked back and found the question had ...
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What's going to happen with my questions when they're deleted?
I've read that some questions are deleted after some time due to low number of upvotes. If this happens, will it be possible to retrieve them some way?
I guess some of my questions may not have a big ...
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A re-post and a delete of the original question
About an hour ago I answered this (now deleted) post:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/220018/showing-fx-is-constant
But after I answered (and there were a few comments) the OP posted a ...
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Why was my question about integral binary quadratic forms removed?
The title of the question is probably:
Relations between fractional ideals of an order of a quadratic number field and binary quadratic forms
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1answer
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Why was my question removed?
I asked a question about the possibility of writing a good mathematical textbook which consists of series of exercises(it contains no proofs and the readers are expected to prove all the propositions ...
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Question about post that was closed and deleted.
Sorry I can't link to the question. I knew going in that I would get a few down-votes because the question was a little abstruse. I was willing to take my lumps. However, when the thread was ...
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People who ask homework questions and then remove them
It just happened (again) that someone removed a homework question after getting responses in comments. I realized this because the OP had responded to my comment before deleting the question, so that ...
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What happened to the interesting question about $L_1$ approximation of $x^n$?
Earlier this morning, there was an interesting question on this site about finding the closest approximation to $x^n$ by lower degree polynomials, in the $L^1$ norm on $[0,1]$.
I've figured out how ...
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Is it possible to find deleted questions via the tools menu? If so, how?
As far as I can guess, a comment on an answer that I made this morning disappeared because the parent question to which the answer (and hence my comment) was attached was deleted. I tried to find ...
