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How to get the only answer marked as correct

I have answered a question here. It is the only answer to a reasonably up-voted question (+7), but it has not been selected as the correct one. Short of tracking down the original poster, is there any ...
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When does it make sense to add an additional answer to a question which has already an accepted answer?

Today I've spotted once again a question, that I thought I could write an answer to, but now it has already an accepted answer (which I quite like and +1ed by the way). So I am again thinking about ...
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The problem with community wiki

This is not a great problem. While poking into a question yesterday, I thought I might answer (as it didn't get a lot of attention though). Today (I mean, NOW) I see my post under "community wiki". I ...
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Why not make it possible to accept 2 answers instead of 1?

In many occasions, one find more than one correct answer, or that 2 answers complete each others in such a way that both answer the question posted. In such situations one tend to mark both of them ...
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old questions with incorrect answers

What is the best way to handle a case where a question was asked a long time ago and received several incorrect answers but no correct ones? To be more concrete, this was the situation with this ...
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Citations are the 'source code' of physics stackexchange

The Stack Overflow faq says: We feel the best Stack Overflow questions have a bit of source code I think the Physics Stack Exchange faq should say: We feel the best Physics Stack ...
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What do you do when an accepted answer is changed from correct to incorrect?

I'm more than 99% sure the wrong answer was accepted here: Rotation angle of a giant lily when a child crawls on its rim (Of course, I'm subject to significant bias saying this, since I submitted a ...
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Best Qualitative Answer vs. Best Mathematical Answer - Choose Both?

I was reading this question - http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/961/why-is-the-nucleus-of-an-iron-atom-so-stable There are two good answers. One explains in words, in a way that might be ...