[tag:bug] [meta-tag:status-bydesign] ### Questions closed as "off-site resource request" do not show the reason they were closed. They say only "off-topic". * [Link to example question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1534119/is-there-any-open-source-mocking-framework-resembling-typemock) * Image of question with post notice that says only "off-topic": [![Question closed as a resource request showing only "off topic" as the reason][1]][1] <hr> * [SE API query](https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions-by-ids#ids=1534119&filter=!Frv9VbqjvQr7DLG6A3Qmkpozvw&site=stackoverflow&run=true): To verify the close reason, look at the `description` in the `closed_details`. You actually have to look through the HTML, but that HTML renders as: <blockquote>This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:<ul class="close-as-off-topic-status-list"><li>"Questions asking us to <b>recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource</b> are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, <a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/254393">describe the problem</a> and what has been done so far to solve it." – Machavity, JL2210, Makyen, tripleee, Vadim Kotov</li></ul></blockquote> <ul><li>All of the other off-topic reasons state which reason it is in the post notice, except custom reasons. So, I'm assuming that the intent is to have this reason displayed in the post notice.</li></ul> [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/HXTCN.png