If the question omits some important information, we can ask more information. Sometimes we can help to clearer formulate the question. At the same time the forum is flooded by elementary questions or by questions which do not make any sense. How we can encourage the young scholars to do a minimum their own homework. If someone has an access to RG, why he or she do not google first. Could active downvoting discourage to post such question?
Agreed, most of time there is abundant relevant material on internet, and we don't read, even don't try to search out.
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Your advice for internet searching is quite good, otherwise guide or ignore such questions
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