On: What does 'showdead' on my profile page do?

[notabel]

OT: What is policy (or general understanding) regarding near-dupes, i.e. submissions of different articles that all cover the same material?

(I seem to be fixating on this today--it's the metaweb/freebase thing.)

[danielha → notabel]

Submissions on articles that cover the same content should be fair game. The voting of the community should decide which article is worth reading.