How to handle questions that do not fit objectively a closed reason?

Question

I understand that questions asking for medical advice are off-topic (as discussed in this meta question) and therefore should be closed.

However, from what I got, there is no clear definition of what a medical advice is. Therefore, I have asked this question to seek a clarification on that close reason.

Now, there's a question that may come up: how should one handle questions that do not objectively fit a closed reason (such as the definition of medical advice) or that may cause doubts if it does or not?

Note that I have used the medical advice here, but the approach may well be generalized to other closed topics.

1. Should it be given the benefit of the doubt to the user and leave it open?

2. Should one ask the user for clarification and proceed upon that?

3. Another approach?

I do see value on the 2) one as I see it will make the community more friendly to new users.

Answer 1

From @JohnP's comment, I found out that, in this community, there's a Flagging category "Other".

Assuming that one comes across a question that doesn't necessarily fit, continuing with the example, the medical advice option, I would say to flag as "Other" and indicate that one is not sure if it fits the medical advice category.

And when one, with access to the flags, comes across that, it would be great to know that someone would act upon that and comment in the question to ask for clarification on the goal of the question.

I understand that people may see things differently, which makes it important to clarify specific terms that are relevant to understand the actions, in this case Flag/Close reasons (once again that is what one is seeking with this question).

And even if there is clear definitions in place, people may still err, and, for this, patient is advised.