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Why was this question closed? (policy for reference requests)

As per the text of the re-open thread, it wouldn't fit to add this to that queue. However, I am curious to understand why this question was closed: Algebra and Geometry book. I have no vested ...
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Bug in which the incorrect user was temporarily listed as the owner of a question

In a moderator flag on this question, as well as in the comments, some users report having temporarily seen the user Shaktal listed as the owner of the question, when in fact the question belongs to ...
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Should some unanswered computer science questions be migrated to CS.SE?

I know that some parts of theoretical computer science are on-topic here. There is now a Stack Exchange site dedicated to computer science. While this does not affect the scope of Math.SE, it might ...
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Questions posted on Math.SE and other SE sites

How should questions that are posted (by the same asker) on Math.SE and another Stack Exchange site be handled? The general Stack Exchange policy is that multi-posting is strongly discouraged. On ...
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There needs to be a clean way of dealing with abstract duplicates.

(Edited) I found that these four question are very similar: (One) (Two) (Three) (Four), and are abstract duplicates in my opinion. However each question is "slightly" different then the next, ...
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How do you search for duplicates

Sometimes I am really surprised how fast are the duplicates of new question found, given that we have vast amount of questions here. I hope posting this question here can be useful and can lead to ...
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Some questions are highlighted [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Blue highlighted questions, what are they? Sometimes I see that some questions are highlighted with kind of light blue color on the main page of math.stackexchange any ...
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Introducing the `tricky-example` tag

A lot of people ask questions regarding tricky integrals or limits, and they simply get tagged calculus limit, or ...