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Why was this question about authors shortening their sentences closed as a duplicate?

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Why close https://writing.codidact.com/posts/286099 as a duplicate of https://writing.codidact.com/posts/286098?

They are related, but distinguishable. Deleting (semi)colons ≠ deleting comma and a conjunction.

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The core of both questions is: why didn't these authors simplify complex sentence structures? It's hard to see how the answers would be significantly different for semicolons versus splitting into two sentences.

I'm not sure "why did these authors do X?" is on-topic on Writing anyway (I can't recall if we've discussed it), but if it is, these are basically the same question with two different proposed alternatives.

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Lundin‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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I checked through the help files but I failed to find any post describing the scope of this site and what's on-topic/off-topic. Analysing existing written fiction seems like something that should be addressed, particularly if it means analysing the content and writing style. (Which sounds like a huge topic, maybe something that would even call for a separate "literature" community.)

Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 3 years ago
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Lundin‭ that sounds like a good topic for a meta discussion. Would you like to start it? (I might not get to it for a couple days.) At current activity levels I don't think we'd need to spin off a separate community for it; whether it should be part of main Q&A or a separate category is something the community should discuss.