Question: A [question asking which actors have played Dr. Who](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/231/which-actors-have-played-dr-who-over-the-years) was closed recently. The reason the page shows is:

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I don't see how that applies to this question. It's not at all difficult to tell what is being asked (and there are two good answers that show others can tell too). It doesn't really seem ambiguous, vague, or overly broad (I guess if you think it means anyone playing the Doctor in any production of any type ever, but if you read it that way an edit would fix it).

It's not incomplete or rhetorical, and the existing answers show that it can be reasonably answered.

When I originally saw the question I didn't think it was great (because it's trivial to find the list of the BBC actors elsewhere). The second answer helps that - it could be better IMO by excluding "spoofs", but including ones outside of the main 12 Doctors (e.g. Cushing, Trevor Martin, the Morbius actors) is reasonable. If the question was open, that could be fixed by an edit to that answer, or a third answer.

Was this closed just because it doesn't seem like a good question? As suggested [here](https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/55/close-vote-motivation), a comment would be useful.

Answer: 
The "general reference" close reason has been abolished, and this particular question seems to be a good and interesting one. It's asking for a finite and clearly scoped list rather than being an open-ended question, so it doesn't fall foul of our "lists or recommendations" close reason either.

The accepted answer to [Are \*all\* list questions off-topic?](https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2638/are-all-list-questions-off-topic) describes what kind of list questions are allowed here, and in fact cites **this very question** as one that is acceptable:

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> However, finite and well-scoped list questions are allowed here. There's a question asking for a list of all of *Doctor Who*'s Doctors, for example. A mere 12 Doctors exist, which can be reasonably included in one, canonical answer. Similarly, a question asks about all of *Star Trek*'s *Enterprise*s. There's a reasonable, limited number of those as well.
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So I helped to undelete this post, and it has now been reopened.
Because you can easily find the answer in Wikipedia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_who_have_played_the_Doctor>