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Tagged with suggested-edits editing
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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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6-Characters minimum on editing with tag edit
I tried to edit a question because it was tagged badly. It seemed mostly fine otherwise, though I decided to fix 2 punctuation and one capitalization errors (which would not normally warrant a ...
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Managing user who edit only tags of several questions
In the recent few days I've reviewed dozens of tag edit proposals made by a single user.
Some of his edits really improves the quality of the question. Although majority of them, despite adding ...
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Requesting clarity on edits that update redirecting URLs
I frequently edit posts that include redirecting microsoft.com URLs. My reasoning is generally that a redirecting link today may be a broken link tomorrow, so as long as the redirect has preserved the ...
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When should additional information be an edit vs a comment vs a separate answer?
Should links and excerpts from relevant documentation be an edit or should they be a comment or should they be an separate answer?
Sometimes I find a helpful answer with a great example of the use of ...
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Edit to correct a basic path syntax error in an answer rejected - why?
I found an answer that was helpful but had a syntax error in the path. I made the correction (so that the answer as-written would at least be accurate in this regard) and it got rejected apparently ...
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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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OP edits the question himself instead of accepting a suggested edit.
First of all, I am not reaching out to the person who did this to disadvantage him.
Basically what happend is, the OP asked a question. I suggested some little edits to improve the formatting. ...
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What's wrong with my edit?
I applied for this edit a few weeks ago.
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/1148560
It was unanimously rejected by the reviewers. I'm not sure what I did wrong here - it seems to me that ...
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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 ...
Daniel BeckMod
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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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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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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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Please offer guidance as to why this edit was rejected
My purpose in asking this is to better understand what is wrong so I don't repeat the mistake.
I came across the following question, in which the author crafted an extremely complex, in-depth ...
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Edits must be at least 6 characters when only editing tags?
I tried to retag this question to add the windows and windows-xp tags, but it wouldn't let me submit my edit because it said that it was less than 6 characters:
At first I thought that it was because ...
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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.
If I had clicked "...
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Are edits for just filling in image descriptions accepted?
I'm a somewhat new user on this site and I was wondering, I've come across many posts that have an image within them but with no image description or it still includes the default message of, "enter ...
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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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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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Should old opinion-based questions be significantly edited?
This question What display size and resolution is good for reading PDF in double page view? is closed as primarily opinion-based. I attempt to edit it like this, but it says I'm editing too much. What ...
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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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