How to handle questions about aspect?

Question

For sure the aspect is one of the hardest things to learn about the Russian language, especially for those (as me) whose first language does not have that concept.

However, every week or every other week someone asks a question about differences between two words where one is perfective and the other is imperfective. This is the latest question and here and here are two examples from two weeks ago. Both have some points in common: The OP seems not to be aware of the concept aspect and the question's tag are edited, i.e. the aspect tag was added. Next, the answers are quite similar, pointing out the same fact and then adding related examples.

At that point I should say that even I asked a similar question, but I also have to justify myself that I created the question being aware of the principal difference between perfective and imperfective and just needed some advice to a concrete context.

Said that, I'm not sure if we really want to have - at some time in future - hundreds of related/similar questions, with only one difference: The verb in question.

One idea that come to my mind is creating a basic question which is similar to the ones that asks for concrete verbs but more general so that we can close questions as duplicate in future and link them to the general question.

What do you think?

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Edit: Regarding Alenanno's answer:

The most important point I see, and what I also mentioned above, is that the answer is always the same. It doesn't matter which word you type-in into the question, it's always: One is perfective, one is imperfective, i.e. one is finished, the other isn't (of course not as short as I did now). So, in my book this is kind of low-level question, since the (general) answer can be found a hundred times on the Internet, and now several times on RLU.

If someone has the question regarding the words X and X' and give him an answer with the words Y and Y' he is still able to understand the difference between X and X'. And if anything is unclear in a concrete context, you can still ask here and then - imho - the question is absolutely justified.

Answer 1

One of the problems with aspect is that its meaning changes depending on the exact context and the type of the verb's meaning. For example, the difference between "открывать" and "открыть" is not the same as the difference between "приходить" and "прийти". "Кто-нибудь открывал окно вчера?" and "Он открывал окно каждое утро." are different meanings. A basic answer would result in a book.

Another problem is that the majority of people who ask this question don't know yet about aspect in Russian. They even don't tag their questions as "aspect", they tag is as "word-choice", which shows that they actually think that the two verbs they are asking about are different words.

That's why I suggest:

• allow answers like "What is the difference between X.perfective and X.imperfective".
• If the answers to questions "What is the difference between verbs X and X'" and "What is the difference between verbs Y and Y'" differ only in the meaning of the verb, but the range of possible aspectual meanings is the same, close the latest question as the duplicate giving the link to the first question or, if there are already good answers, merge the questions.

Answer 2

Good catch, but I don't think there is an issue here. I'll try to explain it...

If the question is asking about the Perfective/Imperfective aspect difference, in general then yes, that's too much.

But if someone wants to know the difference about a certain verb, they can ask. After all they're still asking for certain words, not for a single concept. I'm not sure I was clear but in case, let me know!

Edit: I don't think the answer is always like "One is perfective, one is imperfective, i.e. one is finished, the other isn't", because the answer will also say what meanings that verb acquires in the two aspects and that's peculiar of the verb being asked. That's the difference that make them not duplicates.