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Q&A New Close reason needed [duplicate]

I received a flag for https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279799 that it was a duplicate of https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279637 That is indeed a duplicate and I closed it. However, the text...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Canina‭

Question feature-request
#2: Question closed by user avatar Mithical‭ · 2020-12-10T18:08:56Z (almost 4 years ago)
#1: Initial revision by user avatar manassehkatz‭ · 2020-12-10T17:45:48Z (almost 4 years ago)
New Close reason needed
I received a flag for https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279799 that it was a duplicate of https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279637

That is indeed a duplicate and I closed it. However, the text reason with Duplicate is:

*This question has been answered before.*

which is not strictly speaking true here. This question has been **asked** before but has not received an **answer**. It has comments, tag status-planned, etc. So it is being worked on, but no "answer".

Suggest text change to something like:

*This question has been asked before.*

either in place of the existing text or, if there is concern about *different questions that happen to have answers which satisfy this new question* then make two separate "duplicate" close reasons. (Which of course makes a duplicate of duplicate...)