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It is possible to close a question as duplicate to itself.
I wanted to close one of my own meta posts as duplicate, but accidentally pasted the URL to the question I was closing. The site accepted that the post got closed as duplicate to itself.
In my opinion, this shouldn't be allowed, since it doesn't make any sense.
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This is fixed now. We know that the error message isn't very informative; we'll try to address that later. But you now get one of those pink pop-up error messages if you try to link a post to itself when closing.
We are not yet detecting duplication loops; this is a narrower fix.
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I don't think this is a big problem. Presumably such errors will be rare and can be corrected easily. Adding code to prevent this human error doesn't seem like a good use of resources (coders' time or code running time).
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