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Editing "on hold" question
The question
https://superuser.com/questions/612281/reason-for-unexpectedly-shutdown-with-unexpected-symbols
by unregistered user was put on hold with "unclear what you are asking" as reason.
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It is ok to to edit posts to add tags that are related to answers rather than questions? [duplicate]
I'd like to know if it is ok to add a tag to a post that help categorizing it but it is more related to the answer rather than to the question.
This doubt is related to this question How to create an ...
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A neccessary edit? (whitespaces before KB/MB/GB/etc)
If this edit had gone through a review, it would probably be rejected as "too minor" (there, I "misused backticks" again).
What gives?
Edit: Just to clarify, is there really only one way to write ...
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Question about editing an answer
Sometimes (for no particular reason), I have add my first name (Kevin) to the end of questions or answers that I have posted.
In one particular case, I have posted an answer to a question, months ...
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Why can we only edit our comments for the first five minutes after posting?
I sometimes come across comments that I have typed quickly or on a mobile device or simply without paying enough attention and they have spelling mistakes or typos. Since I can only edit my comments ...
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Unregistered Users Should Not Be Able to Suggest Edits
It bugs me when unregistered users edit my Answers. It's not that big a deal to undo their edits (Moderators always seem to approve them almost immediately), but when they make really bad edits (and ...
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Is there an "Approve" option on SU for edits made to my input?
I have had a few edits done on some of my posts and that's fine, it has helped to fit in the SU site. But while on another StackExchange site, any edits give me the ability to Approve them. Is this ...
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Is bumping a question OK?
Is it OK to bump a question that received not enough attention (tumbleweed candidate) to the top using an edit?
If so under which circumstances?
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What in the world is a "code block"?
I'm trying to edit an answer I wrote a while back to correct an important item.
When I select "Save Edits", it gives me an error with the following:
"Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:
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Should we edit link only answers?
There's lots of them around, and most times I comment asking the OP to edit the answer and add more detail. However there are some cases where the OP isn't around, but the answer is still valid (...
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Removing "Thank you"'s from questions
I have often seen the removal of phrases like "thank you" that mostly newer users, especially 1-rep users, tend to append to their questions.
I even do this myself, mostly because it seems to be a ...
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Are welcome messages in answers acceptable?
I saw this answer and am not sure if the “Welcome to SuperUser.” at the beginning should be removed. It seems out of place to me…and aren't new users shown or emailed a welcome page or something ...
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Editing OS-specific questions or answers if the question or answer will also apply to another OS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?
I recently found out that this question - How print multiple independent pages in one ...
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How should I handle ranting in answers?
I removed a rant from this answer. Is this the right thing to do or should I take some other action?
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What time of the day is Super User getting the least traffic?
Due to the recent discussion about edit flooding, and one possible counter measure mentioned by @Grace Note ...
You may consider that it is often wiser to perform massive edit jobs during low ...
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Can't new users edit their own questions without approval?
Found this question with a suggested edit pending edit. But it looks like it's the OP that has done the edit. Shouldn't this be approved automatically?
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Require users that plan to edit flood over a certain rate / amount to get permission
TL;DR: Users shouldn't flood edits without a consensus. Read my post but skip the optional stuff... :)
Every now and then, we get an edit flood at our front page. This sometimes happens without any ...
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What's up with "Window XP" and "Window 7"?
Editing notice:
Please don't edit and bump posts that are old, have no answers, low views, and are generally of low quality. Vote to close or delete, and/or flag them for moderator attention to have ...
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Is the question's last activity relevant for editing, or accepting suggested edits?
Is the last activity date of a topic relevant in deciding whether a given change makes the relevance threshold when editing, or deciding on a suggested edit?
Are smaller, less important edits fine ...
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How do I force a peer review for my edit when I already have editing privileges?
How do I force my edit through the peer review system (for example, when I'm not sure if I did it right) when I already have editing privileges?
It seems like creating peer review requests is a rare ...
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Editing others' questions: etiquette issue with partially off-topic questions?
The quidelines for editing say don't change the meaning. And it's reasonable and just. But what about questions like this one: "Should I buy webcam of 720p or VGA quality?"
The first part, where the ...
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Does having edit privileges allow me to approve edits from others?
Pre-2000 reputation - Every time I edited a post I needed to await attention before it could be approved. I 100% agree with this rule.
Post-2000 reputation - I can edit any post without waiting for ...
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Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate
Inspired by a similar question on meta.stackoverflow, I just did this database query on superuser, and found 103 pairs of questions with totally identical title, excluding those where one of them is ...
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Why are there large number of high-view questions on the front page? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do we care about edit flooding? Should we be doing anything?
I refreshed my SU page and it went PINK.
As I count, there are 15 questions on the main SU view with nK views. ...
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Are ampersands (&s) inappropriate in questions?
I'm somewhat puzzled by these edits:
https://superuser.com/posts/320217/revisions
Let's break them down:
Changing "w/" to "with"
Capitalizing "Medialink"
Changing "&" to "and"
Changing "E.g." ...
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How do I make the distinction between editing an answer to add content (detail) vs. just answering that question?
I have a question that has the right answer, but it's not very detailed:
How do Optical/Laser Mice work?
I'm at a dilemma here, I want to give the answerer the rep that he deserves as he is correct, ...
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My post was unfairly edited and locked
My previous post was getting edit and I think the edit was wrong.
Look at the Revision 2, sblair completely changed my post, which include a line here:
"I want one of my friends to buy a 1TB hard ...
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Incorporating more information from comments while editing
Editing guidelines (for example this meta question) do not give any information about incorporating additional information from comments.
For example, while editing this, there is additional rather ...
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how do I view revisions to a question?
how do I view revisions to a question (presumably including tag changes)?
do I need a certain rep amount, if so how much?
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Answering a question you previously voted to close
This question was recently posted, asking very ambiguously about the Windows 7 SP1 RC. I voted to close it as "not a real question", since it was just asking for comments on whether anybody had tried ...
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Should questions be edited to show images in-line?
Looking at the first version of this question.
The image link provided in the question points to an imgur URL, so probably was uploaded using the magic now built in to the site.
So, should this be ...
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Is it appropriate to edit "very" old posts?
I ended up here because it was in the related links of a new question. The original version made be pull a face, so I've adjusted it. However, given it has been accepted and unedited for about 7 ...
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Editing others' posts - guidelines / etiquette?
I've just hit the 2000rep mark, and can now edit questions (hurrah! woot! etc, etc...).
But, I'm a little uneasy about editing other people's posts, as it's not something I've really experienced ...
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Is editing being abused?
I never noticed this practice on stackoverflow or serverfault, but I noticed on superuser that some users will answer a question if a placeholder that either barely or does not answer the question it ...
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