Change the 'unclear what you're asking' text

Question

After this answer and its subsequent comments, I propose a change to the "Why should this question be closed?" dialog, which is currently as follows:

unclear what you're asking
Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking.

I suggest the following text instead:

unclear what you're asking
This question is hard to answer, because it summarizes a claim without referencing it. Please add a reference to and quote from the published text which contains the specific claim you want to question.

The current version is standard boilerplate, not customized for Skeptics. When a question is unclear, asking the OP to clarify and add details about the question is less informative than being able to identify and read the specific claim that's being questioned.

Alternatively I suggest that the following off-topic close reason:

Questions regarding claims that are not widely heard or read are off-topic; please see Must all questions be notable?.

... be changed to something like the following:

This question doesn't identify a specific notable claim. Please add a reference to and quote from the published text which contains the specific claim you want to question.

Answer 1

Vote for this answer if you want to adopt the alternative text suggestion provided by @ChrisW in the original question

i.e. change the current custom close reason to:

This question doesn't identify a specific notable claim. Please add a reference to and quote from the published text which contains the specific claim you want to question.

while leaving the "unclear what you're asking" text alone.

Answer 2

This answer serves two purposes. To give some background and to offer a default position.

Vote for this answer if you want to maintain the status quo.

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I checked what is possible through the moderator's interface - i.e. without assistance from StackExchange developers.

It looks like we cannot remove the existing close reasons, but we can add a limited number of new reasons.

Note: One custom reason already exists, viz:

Questions regarding claims that are not widely heard or read are off-topic; please see Must all questions be notable?.

We are warned only to add new close reasons sparingly and with community consultation, so I offer this answer as a 'status quo' response, to ensure we aren't going against the community wishes.

Vote for it if you would rather not have a new reason or change to the old reason. I won't vote for it myself, but if enough do, we shouldn't make any change.

Answer 3

I propose a subtly different text/link to @ChrisW's, while maintaining the same goal.

Change the custom close reason to:

No notable claim has been provided. To maintain our focus on claims that have been widely heard or read, we generally require questions to include a quote and reference to examples of the notable claim.