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Hi and welcome to the site. :)

I think the idea of a canonical like the one you linked is great. A lot of newbies have too little understanding of their topic to identify common patterns. So they keep asking many trivial variations of the same handful of basic questions. People with even intermediate knowledge of the topic will usually have learned how to connect their instance of a problem to the general form and go from there, but of course everyone starts as a newbie. Because newbies cannot properly connect their problem to the big picture, it is useful and better for everyone to connect it with the big picture for them. I posted [some](https://software.codidact.com/posts/280965) [thoughts](https://linux.codidact.com/posts/288309) along these lines here, but I did a worse job than you because I did not provide a good, concrete example. Your question is exactly the type of thing I was thinking of.

For https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62336082 in particular, I think the main issue there is that it's quite long. I think it would be better to create a separate question for each error (like `How do I debug "cannot convert some value to data type" errors?`) and then simply link to them from the main debugging question. This doesn't change any of the content, just reorganizes it and makes it easier to skim.

IMO this content would be very valuable for several reasons:

* It is useful and well written
* It solves a real problem
* It's about an interesting and non-trivial technology