<p><strong>I think both threads should be re-opened and I have voted for that.</strong></p>

<p>Real life examples is one thing, simple examples is another thing, and a question clarifying some technical confusion about one particular case is yet another thing. They are all sufficiently different to remain non-duplicate.</p>

<p>There is probably a good case for making the real-life and the simple-examples questions community wiki (my recent Meta question about CW notwithstanding). I have now edited the simple-examples Q to make it more explicitly CW-like (so that it asks about "some simple examples" and not about "the simplest example").</p>

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<p><strong>Update (Mar 28):</strong> Both threads are re-opened now. Both were reopened via moderator action; for one of them the reopening vote failed and it only got reopened after I raised a corresponding flag.</p>
