Question: I like looking at old questions where I got a new upvote, and today happened across this one:

<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/902003/functional-and-non-functional-requirments/902032#902032>

closed as being off topic.

Now look, folks, I've been a programmer and software engineer for more than 40 years. I can't *think* of a topic that's a lot more on-topic -- or important -- for a professional programmer than understanding the difference between functional and nonfunctional requirements.

Answer: 
This question has several... issues with it.

* Off topic: As another answerer has stated, it's [not in our scope](https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/173421/16587). But let's say I'm wrong about that. Why else could it be closed?
* Not a Real Question: It's an impossibly broad question: You could come up with various requirements until you're blue.
* Too Localized: How many people will benefit from this specific question? There's no way to generalize it; it's about a specific paper that a specific university is using for their class assignment. Outside of that group of people, no one else will find this question.
* Not constructive: Too many possible answers, too much ability for discussion. Which one is the 'right' answer? How do we know objectively that it's right?

It also requires a link to a PDF to download even to answer. What happens when that link dies? The entire question becomes useless.

If: 

* The question would be in the text and not in the PDF, and
* If, somehow, the OP could make the question a larger question about functional and non functional requirements and
* If, somehow, the OP could make a discernibly objective answer criteria

It'd probably still be off topic, but it'd be a lot closer to scope than it is currently. 

As it stands,the question is so far outside of scope that even talking about it is just attracting rubber-neckers. I've deleted it. 10K users can edit it and flag it for un-deletion. We've got a lot of borderline questions we can talk about, but I just don't see this as one of them.
[FAQ](https://stackoverflow.com/faq) mentions:

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> You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual
>  problems that you face. **Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the
>  usefulness of our site** and push other questions off the front page.
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> Your questions should be reasonably scoped. **If you can imagine an
>  entire book that answers your question, you’re asking too much.**
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> 

Though it was a software engineering question but **not inline with FAQ**, so it was correctly closed.