Linked Questions
35 questions linked to/from What are the canonical answers we've discovered over the years?
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Voting on the FAQ rewrite
The FAQ is a very, very important document. It forms the topical-foundation of ServerFault in the way that a constitution forms the foundation of a country's legal system. Because of this, changes to ...
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Canonical question CW policy
I've noticed that some questions in the canonical answer list are CW and some are not.
Is there a reason for this distinction? Should all canonical Qs be CW? If not, what is the criteria for this?
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Where can I find all Wiki Answers?
I'm currently looking through this site for research purposes, This may be very obvious to which I'll feel very stupid but I cant seem to find a way to see all wiki questions and answers together so ...
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Dependency questions
I am seeing a lot of questions recently where people are seeking assistance with installing software - usually compiling from source, or installing an RPM.
In my opinion these questions should be ...
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Should poorly researched, basic, but answerable questions be closed?
This question is, admittedly, incredibly basic. It is also something that I have to explain way more than I would like to some people. Just because the OP didn't put a lot of effort into researching ...
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Should a successful (but certainly perfectible) answer be made a community wiki?
I have written a answer that has become unexpectedly successful.
But I don’t think my answer is perfect, and some users made suggestions for improvement.
Would it be good practice to make this ...
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Proposed changes to some help pages
In response to voretaq7's comment on
an answer elsewhere,
I'm here proposing some adjustments to the help and other text.
I was looking for the following material, and managed not to find it, though ...
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Why was my question closed as off-topic?
The question is about understanding a failure or fault of an SSD drive that is not total, and not predicted or visible in SMART.
The FAQ for Server Fault says: "Server ... hardware, software ... ...
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Voting statistics on serverfault
I was wondering if there is some place that has voting statistics / general usage statistics on Serverfault.
Possibly in relation to its closest sister sites: StackOverflow and Super User.
I'm mostly ...
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Can I open a question about licensing?
I would like to open a question about VMware Essentials Kits licensing but, searching through the community I've found this: Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
Which lead me to ...
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Question closed as not constructive / locked
A question that had been asked about 3 years ago (Sep 11 2009) and that I answered last week as just been closed as not constructive: Functional implications of differences in SSL and TLS
This is a ...
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Concrete question was closed with "too broad"
Just came through this thread: Difference between Microsoft ADCS Standalone CA and Enterprise CA
For me the question doesn't look "too broad", because the answer is quite obvious for those who is ...
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Publish private Lan services over Internet
How to access my internal network services from outside my local network ?
This is a redundant question i can see on SF, mainly regarding Web Server publication from Lan to Internet.
From now, i ...
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Should I flag bottleneck identification problems as Capacity and Planning dupes?
There are lots of questions on ServerFault (2.3k as of this writing) about identifying bottlenecks. I just came across CPU overloaded but no proccess is using more than 1% when reviewing, and I'm not ...
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Could someone let me know the reason for closure of my question?
I wanted to know the reason behind the closure of this question. The reason states the question is off-topic which surprises me because I happened to read a pretty similar question again in server ...
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