A couple of days ago I left an answer to a question. The question was not a good one. It was extremely broad and non specific. However, the core of it boiled down to two things: how do I use GNU/Linux, and how do I use python.
The answer I left began by reminding the new user that this style of question is a bad fit for a stackexchange site, with links to the help center advice for how to ask a good question.
Then, I gave brief answers to the two questions, both of which were essentially: learn by doing, experiment with what is available to you.
I gave multiple links to the user showing how their question could be answered by some simple web searches.
However, I did not explicitly copy/paste information from the links.
The answer I gave was then flagged for deletion as it "does not provide an answer to the question"
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According to the help center, answers may be removed if they do not fundamentally answer the question
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I believe that the given answer does answer the question that was asked.
It seems that the consensus is that even poor questions should be given a fair answer.
With all of this in mind, what are the reasons this answer was flagged for deletion?