@Alex No, because it's not at all reasonable to expect a complete answer to the other question to address the special case of disputedly forbidden derabanan

@IsaacMoses I might expect a complete answer to "What should one do if he made a beracha on something he is not allowed to eat?" to address the fact that within Judaism there are different levels of "forbidden to eat". I might expect a good answer to say that it depends what level of "forbidden" we're dealing with. Maybe for something forbidden biblically you should do XYZ, for something forbidden rabbinically you should do ABC, and for something forbidden customarily you should do JKL.

I might even expect a good answer to try to address what to do if you're not sure which category something falls into. Or alternatively, I might say that the question is too broad, if a complete answer can't be expected to address the different subcategories.

@Alex or, you could just allow it to be answered, covering the obvious case or two, and not require future askers to go to extraordinary and unreliable lengths to cover the edge case of "forbidden for me because I wait six hours, but not everyone does." IMO, that would be the most reasonable path

... which is most likely to result in worthwhile answers to both questions

But "the obvious case or two" is subjective. I might think that the difference between something that's just a minhag and something that's actually rabbinically or biblically forbidden (without necessarily mentioning a specific minhag like waiting 6 hours after meat) would fall under the "obvious case or two", but you might think it doesn't. Now we'd be voting to close based on different standards.

(Or at the very least, we should invoke your other idea — the second question should have to demonstrate a reason to suspect that waiting 6 hours after meat would be an exception to the general rule.)

In any case, if I was going to answer a question like that I would probably at least leave a comment asking the questioner if there's a specific case (or type of forbidden food) that he's referring to.

> Note that by employing words like "reasonable" and "obvious," this language is subject to subjective interpretation on a case-by-case basis by people who know something about Judaism. Indeed, that's why we pay close-voters and moderators the big bucks.

-- judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/3509/2

@Alex that would definitely improve the dairy question

Editing it in would be good. Closing until that's done, maybe. I wouldn't mod-close on that basis, I don't think