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Why was the "Songs sung in Beetlejuice (1988)" question deleted?

Why was the "Songs sung in Beetlejuice (1988)" question (Internet Archive mirror) deleted? Screenshot: I thought that a general (Stack Exchange's, cross-site) rule of thumb says that: We'...
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Why are ID questions not removed immediately?

Since ID questions are off-topic, why are the moderators not removing ID questions immediately right after a user posts them? This question has been asked 16 hours ago but it's still online.
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My post got deleted without any explanation or feedback

Earlier today, I asked a question on this stackexchange site. It might not have been a suitable questions, for many reasons that more knowledgeable people here will presumebly enjoy detailing. However,...
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Why is my answer on this question deleted?

How does this guy eat? Napoleon, also closed one of my questions for being "lack of details"! but it was deleted because it was duplicated. Is it a good reason to close a question because of being ...
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Where to find deleted questions?

Even this existing question doesn't give a definite answer about: If my question gets downvoted and deleted, why there are no questions in "deleted recent questions" in my profile? It displays "No ...
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Answer deleted by moderator [duplicate]

I answered a question What if a bullet hit Wonder Woman?. It got more votes that the accepted answer, but then a moderator decided to delete it and gave the reason "This does not answer the question, ...
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My posts disappeared from the site

I like to drop by our site from time to time but I am not a very frequent user, so I'm not sure when this happened I remember I had 3 more identification questions on the site, each had upvotes, ...
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Why was this movie identification question deleted so quickly?

A short while ago, we received this question asking for the name of a supernatural horror film. Obviously it's off-topic here, but it would have been on-topic over on SciFi.SE. I was halfway through ...
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Identification Question Cleanup: Deleting old questions

As part of no longer supporting identification questions, we're starting the next phase of cleaning up the existing baggage. After closing and locking all existing questions, we now have to prune the ...
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Why my question got deleted?

Just now I posted a question regarding The Family Man, it got removed. I am new user here. I solved my question by clicking the green tick. I am just learning about it. Is that mistake I did now? ...
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Why questions get deleted?

Some examples https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/59908/alien-movie-where-alien-needs-mens-orgasms-to-live/ https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/49295/movie-with-young-girl-who-draws-...
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My question disappeared - was it deleted or is this just a bug?

Some months ago I asked a question about a movie which I was struggling to identify for several years. Today I've discovered that my question is not there: However, as you see, this question received ...
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Why is my question gone?

It wasn't a stellar question, but it was the only one I have ever posted here. If I remember right, the question itself didn't get any upvotes, but the answer I posted a few days later, did. It ...
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Should we encourage swifter deletion of bad ID questions?

While polling still hasn't closed on the featured discussion Shall we ban identification questions? (if you haven't voted there yet, go and do so now!), it looks at this point as if the community ...
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Do deleted questions affect reputation?

So I was scrolling through my reputation tab, to see my rep breakdown and I noticed a post that has like 45+ rep, but when I clicked to see the page was deleted. I do not know why it was deleted ...
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Failure of Questions to delete

I have been deleting my answers for nearly a week to comply with the requirements needed to sever my connection to this stackexchange (at least that was the requirements I understood - delete as fully ...
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Is there any way to delete a question whose answer has been given?

If I feel that a particular question that I asked was irrelevant from the comments and in the mean time someone has given answers to the question, is there any way that I can delete the question apart ...
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Where can I access my deleted question?

I need to add other details to it. It's not even shown on my user page (no questions asked/deleted), as if I never asked it. (Also, I lost a lot of reputation points with it despite the fact that it ...
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Is there a question penalty for a question that was deleted because it had no answers?

I believe that I had a question on the site that received one or two upvotes, but no answers that was under the heading of "Identify This Movie." (It was an Americanized version of the Sound of Music, ...
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What guidelines does "Community" use to delete posts?

I just came across this question relating to Captain Phillips (2013): Why was the family's viewpoint not shown in the movie? If you look at the revision history, it was twice deleted by "...
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my question was deleted

I asked a question about a film I am looking for and I logged in today to find that it has vanished. what happened to it? why was i not notified that it was removed? how can i recover my deleted ...
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Extend the policy for deleting inactive identification questions

The impact of identification questions has been discussed by and large already and I want to concentrate here on a particular aspect whose reasons and counter-measures have been largely agreed upon ...
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What is the difference between close-voting detail-lacking ID questions and deleting inactive ones?

There has been quite some confusion recently as to what to do with old inactive ID-questions and what the difference is between close-voting for "not enough detail" and deleting for inactivity, ...
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Clarification on why my post was closed and deleted

I had a post (2k+ only) that was deleted, but there is no moderator comment indicating why. The only thing wrong with it is apparently I'm confusing some movies I had watched. I had thought it was ...
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