Improving questions to prevent deletion of answers

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Martin Sleziak

6:53 AM

I guess anyone following meta knows what the name of the room refers to.

But you might have a look here for some context:

I have noticed that this question was autodeleted and two good answers were removed with it.

A: Is there an MSE-like site that is more pleasant to work in? Or are there other solutions?

Since the question has been expanded to include other solutions, I'll propose one: Improve the questions whose current state puts your answers at risk Here is a query that finds them: My answers at risk, with your UserId pre-filled. It locates the answers that may be deleted if you-know-who...

math.stackexchange.com/questions/877499/…

Maybe they might be salvaged by being moved here:

Q: Expressing in the form $A \sin(x + c)$

Express in the form $A\sin(x+c)$ a) $\sin x+\sqrt3\cos x$; b) $\sin x-\cos x$ sol: a) $A=\sqrt{1+3}=2$, $\tan c=\frac{\sqrt 3}1$, $c=\frac\pi3$. So $\sin x+\sqrt3\cos x=2\sin(x+\frac\pi3)$ b) $\sqrt 2\sin(x-\frac\pi4)$ Can someone please explain the method used in the provided sol...

trigonometry

(Perhaps with adding explanation that these answers are about the first part of the question, concerning $\sin x+\sqrt3\cos x$.)

I will try to ping @MichaelAlbanese and @AndréNicolas somewhere to let them know about this.

Could you have a look here? After you seeing my message, please, ping me in the chatroom. (I will delete it, since it will be no longer needed.) — Martin Sleziak 8 secs ago

Could you have a look here? After you seeing my message, please, ping me in the chatroom. (I will delete it, since it will be no longer needed.) — Martin Sleziak 9 secs ago

The question about defining determinant has been autodeleted: math.stackexchange.com/questions/607448/…

At the time of deletion it had 2 reopen votes. It has already some undelete votes.

Martin Sleziak

7:20 AM

This question was recently undeleted:

Q: How to solve the equation $(3x+4)/[4x(x-4] - 1/(x-4) = 1/4x$?

I'm having a difficult time with the next equation: $$\frac{3x+4}{4x\left(x-4\right)}-\frac{1}{x-4}\:=\:-\frac{1}{4x}$$ Can somebody explain me the process! ?

algebra-precalculus rational-functions

I am not sure, how to improve it, so that it does not gets autodeleted again.

This question was also reopened recently:

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Q: Using integration by parts to find $\int x \ln(2x)\,dx$

I am having issues with solving this case: $\int {x}\ln2x~\mathrm{d}x$ Could I ask you, please, for helping me out with this? Thank you

integration indefinite-integrals

I am not sure how it could be improved. (It is too late for the OP to show their own work, considered that it already has several answers.)

In any case, if the above two questions are removed from the site, that will probably not be a great loss. (With the exception of the work that people put in the answers.)

1 hour later…

Martin Sleziak

8:30 AM

In the discussion several users have suggested something along the lines: If you don't want your answer deleted with the question and the OP does not improve the question he should do it.

However I am not sure how to do this. I feel like the question "belongs" to the OP, so I am not supposed change it heavily.

I definitely can't say where the OP has problems or show OP's work.

Should I post a new question, where I try to add some "context" (whatever this word means in this context|?

1 hour later…

Martin Sleziak

9:47 AM

@MartinSleziak I meant undeleted not reopened.

3 hours later…

Michael Albanese

12:58 PM

The question that has been deleted is a duplicate of the one that remains open, and my answer is effectively the same as Rod Carvalho's, so I don't feel that my answer needs to be salvaged. Cheers.

2 hours later…

Martin Sleziak

2:38 PM

Thanks for the response, Michael. Since many users have been complaining on meta about auto-deletion, which deletes together with questions also some useful (upvoted) answers, I have looked into a few recently deleted question.

2 hours later…

900 sit-ups a day

4:26 PM

Martin, I appreciate the concerns, but I don't think you should be holding a handle for people who can't be bothered to make sure their answers stay on the site, or to vote for undeletion when they do.

And I don't think that the site should be a log of every correct manipulation with trigonometric functions ever made.

4 hours later…

Martin Sleziak

8:36 PM

@900sit-upsaday Well the whole thing is probably not worth the effort.