Closed question stats - June 2013

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Since we don't have that many questions, I decided to take a couple hours of my time and put together some stats on close reasons.

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Close reasons as of June 2013

 　
     close reason                  not deleted      deleted         total

     duplicate                     48               8               56 (1.8%)
     off topic                     17               8               25 (0.8%)
     not constructive              14               3               17 (0.6%)
     not a real question           56               28              84 (2.7%)
     too localized                 18               20              38 (1.2%)

     migrated (to meta)            0                18              18 (0.5%)
     migrated (to superuser)       0                2               2 (0.1%)
     migrated (to anime)           0                1               1 (0.0%)

     totals                        153              88              241 (7.8%)
 　

^{The percents are out of all 3097 questions on the main site. That number includes deleted questions.}

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Samples of TL and OT usage to date

Since too localized is going away, and since custom off-topic reasons are intended to fill that gap, I thought it'd be nice to look at how we're currently using both close reasons. So, I made some lists. Since they're sorted numerically, items toward the end of the list are more recent. (Questions in code have been deleted, so if you have less than 2000 reputation, you won't be able to see them.)

• The following questions were selected randomly:

  • Closed as OT: 638 1375 2015 2384 2852 3405 3795 4322 5478 5542 5815 6174 6381 6539 8311 9616 11034 11081 12047 12121

  • Closed as TL: 2176 2942 3700 4557 4629 4734 4756 6048 6212 6448 6882 6898 9782 11055 11248 11609 11920 11922 12021 12082

• And the following questions are the twenty most recent:

  • Closed as OT: 9655 9686 11034 11059 11081 11086 11173 11196 11220 11344 11349 11439 11491 11494 11556 11620 12025 12047 12069 12121

  • Closed as TL: 6448 6516 6552 6882 6898 9652 9782 11055 11118 11248 11311 11372 11609 11610 11695 11920 11922 12021 12063 12082

As a reminder, we have a meta question for discussing custom close reasons here.

Answer 1

Since the ultimate point of this is to help see if the new close system will work adequately, I've gone through all the undeleted TL questions you listed to see if another close reason would suffice:

• 2176 - Apparently this was a typo and there is no specific close case to cover this. Should they even be closed?
• 3700 - Could have been left open if the document table was embedded in the question. Otherwise, maybe off-topic.
• 4557 - Should not have been closed.
• 6212 - If it violates our translation guidelines, off-topic: translation request
• 6552 - Another typo question.
• 9652 - Why was this closed?
• 9782 - Another typo question.
• 11055 - Another typo question.
• 11240 - off-topic: translation request
• 11695 - Another typo question.
• 11920 - off-topic: translation request
• 11922 - off-topic: translation request
• 12063 - off-topic: translation request
• 12082 - unclear what you’re asking

Overall, it seems like a translation sub-reason for "off-topic" would definitely be useful. I'm not sure what to do about all the typo questions that used to fall under "too localized". They aren't exactly "off-topic", just not very helpful to future visitors. That's something which is still being debated across the network.