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We have an issue open to fix this in the code, but I recently realized that moderators can also fix it locally: the close reasons are editable. I've edited it here on Meta to say "This question ha...
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#1: Initial revision
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Monica Cellio
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2021-01-12T18:33:18Z (almost 4 years ago)
We have an issue open to fix this in the code, but I recently realized that moderators can also fix it locally: the close reasons are editable. I've edited it here on Meta to say "This question has been addressed elsewhere". Moderators, please consider backward compatibility when editing close reasons. Don't edit a reason into a completely different one, because the edit affects all questions that have already been closed, and disentangling it later would be hard. (The UI doesn't expose any edit history on close reasons, so if you see an old question with a now-inappropriate close reason, it'd take digging in the database to figure out when it happened.) You can always add new reasons and deactivate old ones. Things like this current use case -- clarifying the meaning of a close reason -- are why close reasons are editable at all. So please do edit to improve reasons, and please be careful not to break existing closures in the process.