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    • CommentAuthorKevin Lin
    • CommentTimeMar 10th 2010 edited
     

    When you vote to close a question, one of the options for the reason for closure is "too localized". What does this mean exactly?

    (Plz no awful localization puns, kthxbye)

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    I just pick reasons at random if there aren't any that are particularly suitable. Sometimes I use it to mean "too elementary".

    • CommentAuthorHarry Gindi
    • CommentTimeMar 10th 2010 edited
     

    Edit: Oops, double post.

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    How do I solve $x^2+2x+1=0$ is too localized whereas how do I solve a quadratic equation is not so much.
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    I don't know, but both of those examples would be "off topic".
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    In practice "too localized" is usually code for "HW" which isn't one of the list of reasons.

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    I'm surprised that there is no "other" reason that you can type in.

    • CommentAuthorKevin Lin
    • CommentTimeMar 10th 2010
     

    I agree with fpqc --- an "other" option would be nice.

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    While "other" would be nice, there are valid uses for "too localized". We sometimes have questions where the point of the question is obscured by a huge amount of very specific detail. In a different direction, I closed http://mathoverflow.net/questions/17694/why-is-lexicographic-bfs-minus-used-in-cograph-recognition-linear-closed on the basis that you had to have read a particular paper before the first sentence even made sense.

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