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What to do with duplicates with no answers?

A question can only be closed as a duplicate to another if that other question had an upvoted or accepted answer. So the best we can do in my opinion is leave a comment, and when one of the questions …
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SEO of tags and question titles

I just tried searching for a few of our questions that I know have a wider audience (for example questions on diet, smoking and pregnancy, exercise) on Google and Bing and we didn't show up very early …
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Where's the line between health and human physiology?

There are several questions on Health.SE that I would consider as being off-topic, as they are not about health, but about general human physiology/biology. Examples are Is "big boned" real or not? …
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State of the site - moderators

Over a week ago, the Health.SE site lost two moderators, Susan and anongoodnurse, in quick succession (the same or subsequent days). As far as I can see this was never announced anywhere on Meta and o …
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Is a rep/user push needed

It's all well and good to point out that there's a need for more answers, as the unanswered questions mountain is not getting any smaller (currently at almost 400 questions), but there's another impor …
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"Answers that don't include explanations may be removed": in what cases?

Also, it isn't very far from a link-only answer, which are not recommended (the linked discussion on Meta.SE being part of the FAQ). … Here's another meta discussion on the issue: Is copying documentation bad?. …
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Overlap, reliable sources, and attribution

1) Is importing an answer from another SE site acceptable? What if it is one's own answer? I have not seen this done before, and don't know the 'official' policy if there is one. Adding to the ot …
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Including non-open access references? [duplicate]

Usually, in my answers, I try to only quote references that can easily be accessed by everyone online - whether book chapter available online, or papers in open access journals. However, I can also …
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What to do with "drugs" and "medications" tags?

The tag "medications" has been used 39 times on the site and has the following tag wiki: Questions related to intake, use, safety, side effects of medications The tag "drugs" has been used 27 ti …