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My answer was deleted as original, non verifiable research. That wasn't the case
It appears the bulk of the confusion here is because the deleting moderator actually deleted the answer as un/undersourced—under the (reasonable) justification that metadata alone doesn't count as "...
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Claims involving personal information about notable people - Part2 (7 years later)
This appears to be a duplicate of your previous question. What has changed?
You got what you wanted. Your question was reopened by a mod. It was left unanswered. Then after about 5 weeks, a bot ...
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Why was my question about tanks in Ukraine closed?
Your question was poorly written and contained no notable claim that could be addressed. Furthermore, your subsequent comments added no clarity whatsoever to what you might be asking.
If you have a ...
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Do we need a "widely believed" filter for claims made by celebrities?
Addressing the claim that no-one would actually believe what Trump says in this example, it's not clear to non-US people that it isn't true. Some places are mostly cashless now (parts of Europe, parts ...
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Can we reopen "Did Jeffry Epstein kill himself?"?
I have re-opened the question because, purely as a point of order, I think you are right. Sufficient time has passed that this is no longer a "current event".
However, I posted a comment on ...
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My question is not a duplicate. Can it be reopened?
Welcome to Skeptics!
I suggest you have a read of the Welcome to New Users FAQ.
Your question has been substantially rewritten to make it possible to re-open it.
In particular, the irrelevant ...
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Can we reopen the Trump Tower wiretapping question?
1) No. I think that should be enough to re-open it.
We want to avoid falling over ourselves trying to answer questions based on evidence that is still filing in. We aren't journalists chasing down ...
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Why was my question about tanks in Ukraine closed?
Because you are a known troll with a network-wide suspension that you keep trying to evade, even though it is so much faster for us to delete your nonsense than it is for you to post it.
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My question has been closed because of it being duplicate and it isn't
Please have a read of the discussion here: Are magic tricks in scope?
Please also have a read of the answer of the duplicated question that directly addresses your question, particularly the quote ...
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My answer was deleted as original, non verifiable research. That wasn't the case
This case doesn't neatly fit any of our established categories for removing answers, but it does have the same underlying issues. I personally would have viewed this more as an uncited answer. The ...
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Understanding Skeptics rules!
You are right, the other question was also non-notable (even searching for the image leads to our site first...)
In the case of "going loco", the point is: who cares if he said those exact words? ...
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Do we need a "widely believed" filter for claims made by celebrities?
Trump's politics may be rather strange but they have carried him into arguably one of the most powerful positions in the world. POTUS used to be be regarded as the leader of the free world, and ...
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Do we need a "widely believed" filter for claims made by celebrities?
I'm against giving a free pass even to famous politicians.
Not everything anyone famous says is notable--they need to convince a bunch of people. In this day and age of shooting claims on Twitter ...
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