<p><strong>Our community-modifiable default off-topic close reasons are</strong></p>
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<li><p>Self-study questions (including textbook exercises, old exam papers, and homework) that seek to understand the concepts are welcome, but those that demand a solution need to indicate clearly at what step help or advice are needed. For help writing a good self-study question, please visit the meta pages.</p>
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<li><p>This question appears to be off-topic because it is not about statistics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining, or data visualization.</p>
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<li><p>Questions about obtaining specific datasets are off-topic on Cross Validated. You are welcome to post this question to the Open Data site instead, thank you!</p>
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<p>(&quot;This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network&quot; cannot be modified and will always be an option.)</p>
<p><strong>I would like to add another default reason</strong> that in a friendly, polite, and helpful fashion says something like</p>
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<p>This question appears to focus exclusively on programming, debugging, or performing routine operations within an application. It cannot be migrated to StackOverflow because it does not meet their standards or <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve">needs more information</a>. You might be able to get an answer at one of the <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/793">support links we maintain</a>.</p>
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<p>If you favor this, please suggest a better wording (and/or upvote suggestions you like); and otherwise, please explain why making this a default close reason might not be a good idea.</p>
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<h3>Important Edits</h3>
<p>In attempting to implement this, I discovered a severe length limitation and pared back the proposed text (including the link) to fit the space provided.  I managed partially to incorporate a suggestion made in <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/a/2427">the answer by Gung</a>--there is a link to SO guidance for creating a Minimal Complete Verifiable Example.</p>
<p>Having succeeded in meeting this limit, I then (re-)discovered a limitation on the number of close reasons: we cannot have more than three!  <strong>I am therefore asking for your suggestions about how to incorporate this suggested fourth reason within the three we are allowed.</strong>  It probably needs to be rolled into the second close reason (&quot;...not about statistics etc.&quot;), perhaps in this abbreviated form (which uses every allowable character):</p>
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<p>This question appears to be off-topic because--to be understood and answered--it does not require any knowledge of statistics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining, or data visualization. If it focuses on programming, debugging, or performing routine operations within a statistical computing platform, visit the <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/793">support links we maintain</a>.</p>
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<p>Previous discussions on this topic occurred at</p>
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<li><p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1749/can-we-clarify-the-off-topic-closing-options">Can we clarify the off-topic closing options?</a></p>
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<li><p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2149/migrating-software-syntax-to-stackoverflow-or-datascience">Migrating software syntax to StackOverflow or DataScience?</a></p>
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<li><p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1335/how-to-ask-question-related-to-the-use-of-r">How to ask question related to the use of R?</a> (this has a number of examples worth contemplating).</p>
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<li><p><a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1640/why-was-this-question-migrated-to-stackoverflow-it-does-not-mention-programming">Why was this question migrated to StackOverflow? It does not mention programming at all</a> (this discussion occurred primarily within the comments).</p>
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