Questions tagged [editing]
Anything related to the editing feature, e.g. anonymous edits, suggested edits, the editing privilege, edit history, etc.
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Notify a rejected or accepted edit
I would like to propose to somehow notify a rejected edit.
Meanwhile the accepted edit give a +2 and it is somehow notified in the Recent Inbox Messages, the rejected one is difficult to find [1,2] ...
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Too many edits issue. Post-ban support
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I was banned the past year in 2014. I have a post-ban in which I can't ask any question in superuser.com.
Here are two discussions about my problem:
Am I a victim of any sort of ...
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Guidance: editing question to reveal intent by removing author's obvious understanding, (or any reader's understanding)
I had my edits rejected, which to me at least, clearly showed the questioner's intent at: https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/389619
The edits were rejected with the boilerplate, "This ...
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OP edited question substantially after answer(s) were posted
Yesterday, for the second time in the past three months, I answered a question,
only to get a response from the OP saying, in effect,
This answer was correct when you posted it.
I’ve changed the ...
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How to answer NO to "Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?"
I performed a formatting edit to Weird drive popped up randomly. The site is prompting me with "Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?". Since is a ...
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Is a suggested edit that completely rewrites an answer appropriate?
I asked a question a few months ago that was answered very succinctly. I thought the answer fit perfectly; it had the exact amount of information that someone with the same problem would need to ...
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Are we/you strongly opposed to using **bold**?
Background: I suggested to emphasize the real answer in this answer about password checking ("you supply both the old and the new password") by making it bold. The suggestion was accepted, but ...
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Style edits - inline formatting versus blockquote formatting (`` vs 4 spaces)
Someone keeps going through various questions and answers making style edits.
One of them is here. I do not understand the significance nor reasoning for changing a code sample to something with four ...
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Should non-substantial edits be approved or rejected?
Should we accept/improve edit suggestions where the editors could obviously have done more?
Example 1: Fixing only one letter
Take this edit suggestion as an example. The only difference between the ...
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Edit is disabled? [duplicate]
I noticed that the Edit button is disabled (greyed out and not clickable) when viewing posts:
I'm having trouble locating information on why that might happen (Googling is returning lots of ...
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Is it appropriate to merge comments back into the original question?
Consider this question. The question as originally posted was rather unspecific and ambigious, but the poster then clarified his intention in a comment.
From what I read here and on other ...
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Why are edits that enforce site policy rejected?
The Stack Exchange has a policy against tags in the title.
Why are edits that enforce site policy rejected?
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Why can’t I edit this question but I can still edit others?
I don’t have the magically 2,000+ to actually edit content independently, but why can’t I edit this quite obviously messed up post:
Cannot access the Internet even though it shows to be connected on ...
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Is there a point to editing a question that should be moved to another SE site?
Sometimes I come across questions that really belong on another Stack Exchange site (usually Stack Overflow) that also have serious formatting, spelling and / or grammatical errors.
Is there a ...
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Minimal edit distance can be circumvented with comments
I've just seen this trick in the review queue and I have to admit it's pretty clever:
Users below 2000 rep have to change at least some number of characters for the edit to be allowed by system. ...
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What is a substantial Edit?
I have just made my first attempted edit of a post here other than my own and I am confused on what a substantial edit is because the edit appears to be rejected because the my edit was not "...
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Official policy for editing code in answers?
In another Meta discussion about suggested edits, Mokubai♦ posted the following:
With code related edits if I do not know what the edit is doing or if
it changes the output of the code in ...
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Can someone explain how I got +2 rep points for editing this question
Can someone explain how I got +2 rep points for editing this question:
Excel Document Size is at 0KB, can't be opened
This is someone else's question.
I did not post an answer to the ...
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How to correct some spelling mistakes while there's a limitation: said edits must be at least 6 characters
How to correct some spelling mistakes while there's a limitation that said
Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?
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Is there any way to provide feedback to proposers and reviewers of editors?
A user kindly proposed this edit, and two other users approved it:
https://superuser.com/revisions/308130/5
Despite the facts that it contains erroneous formatting (it puts the code backticks around ...
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Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?
A question about Markdown editors with live preview is specific to Mac OS X, but several other answers, including mine, discuss applications that run on other operating systems.
Is it appropriate to ...
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When editing two comments, after having saved the first edit, it is impossible to save the second edit
I have encountered a bug in the site Super User.
I make two comments :
Here is the Tadpole.
There is the Caterpillar.
To edit the comment 1, I click edit. In editing my comment, I add my new text :
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Error: "body must be at least 30 characters" when editing an answer
I tried to edit an answer of someone else and got this message:
Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:
body must be at least 30 characters; you entered 19
It's this answer: ...
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Suggestion for a system to vote on edits
Edits on Super User are very important, it gives sense to many questions and answers here and I think it deserves a good stimulus (such as "Editor" and "Copy Editor" badges), but in my humble opinion ...
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Why do some answers don't have edit link?
Currently in this answer of question 226923 I am seeing that there is no link to edit the answer, whereas just below that answer I can see that there is link to edit that answer.
Both answers are ...
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What steps can I take to check and improve lower quality questions?
It is sometimes unclear in which way a question should be handled. What can I do to check why excactly it doesn't meet our standards? What could I do to inform the user and improve it to be of higher ...
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Does retagging count as an edit?
When you retag a question, it displays on the question as an edit. However, does it actually count as an edit (such as toward the Strunk & White or Copy Editor badges)?
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Editing privileges suspended - reactivated at 2k rep
My account had editing privileges suspended for 7 days for rejected edits. I hit 2,000 reputation and I gain the privileged to edit questions and answers without another user's review AND the ...
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Under what circumstances is an edit summary required?
I was editing a post (now deleted, and I am sure that that has something to do with it) and it asked me for an edit summary of ten characters.
Under what circumstances would I need to provide such a ...
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Differences between plain-text diff and formatted diff
Plain-text diff and formatted diff produce different results in what they consider was added.
I wondered about the following editing diff in a recent post of mine:
I clearly added a sentence to ...
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Conflicting edits are allowed. Warning needed?
When a user starts editing a post while another user is also editing, the edits of first committer is lost, since the last commit overwrites the previous ones.
Happened in this answer. See the ...
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Users with less than 2k rep cannot edit meta posts
I've edited a number of posts this week, using suggested edits because I don't have 2k on SU yet. It just occurred to me that MSU might also have some posts in need of cleanup, so I came by to check.
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Can all images be on 'stack.imgur' to prevent endless edits? Or get an interesting tab?
In Do we care about edit flooding? Should we be doing anything?, Jeff Atwood mentioned:
Edits should be reasonably substantive -- trivial edits have all the negatives but almost none of the ...
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Create a queue for posts that will have to be reviewed later
There are many posts that should be placed in a queue to be checked later. An example is this one, but there are comments like this scattered all over the place:
Having a queue like this would ...
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How should I try to improve a question that the user doesn't like my edits for?
Often, when I edit questions, it is because they need editing to be uncrap.
After putting some time into making the following question uncrap, one person approved the edit, but the user rejected it ...
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Can Moderators See Edits Made to Answers Within 5 Minutes?
Can moderators etc. can see edits made within 5 minutes?
I ask because I answered a question one minute after someone else but they quickly changed their answer to include information from mine. But ...
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Make the edit tags button not bump a post
Four to five times a week I find my self answering a 2-3 year old question on the front page that I do not realize is a old (potentially abandoned) question that Hennes edited to do tag cleanup on (...
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Is approving a edit for 2k users a bug or feature?
A low rep user edited a question I was looking at, I thought the changes he made where good and I clicked to approve it. Now it is sitting waiting for a approval of a 2nd user.
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Preview does not accurately represent code
<pre> tags are lined up with my bullet indents in the code preview, but not in the answer.
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What is the proper procedure for us laypeople to edit an answer?
How do I get rid of adware from Search Conduit/White Smoke?
A few days ago, I had this question answered with the assistance of another user. His answer did not entirely solve my problem, however. ...
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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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Do you really always need to make an edit summary?
I just tried to edit a question with poor spelling and no punctuation. Why does this require an edit summary? I believe I have seen edits without edit summary. Does this have something to do with my ...
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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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Can other users edit my posts without my approval?
Is it possible for other users to edit StackExchange posts without the approval of the post's original author? I'm concerned that some of my posts (and those of other users) may be altered in ways ...
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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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