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Why did my edit that fixed several spelling errors get rejected as superfluous?
I see that you tried again, and your suggestion was approved this time.
But, please, when you see a non-inlined image like
[enter image description here][1]
don’t change it to
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Should users suggest technical edits?
Imagine how bad Wikipedia would be if original article authors always rejected or rolled back helpful, correct edits made by contributors. It's amusing but sad to think of an equivalent to SE answers ...
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Managing user who edit only tags of several questions
Some background here. The user's currently trying to work his way out of a question ban, and well, he's being somewhat enthusiastic about it. There's a few questions here by him on the topic.
I ...
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Is a suggested edit that completely rewrites an answer appropriate?
No, not cool. Such an extensive edit should have been its own answer, not an edit. The suggested edit should have been rejected.
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Should I perform a duck test when reviewing suggested edits?
We can't merge accounts any more. We basically use a duck test + a quick look at whatever PII we have, and pass it up to a CM. There's nothing that a regular user can do. In many cases I actually ...
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How is my edit not considered an improvement?
As suggested by fixer1234 in the comments here, it appears that the original answerer wanted to make a direct quotation of his source without editing or improving it at all. I for one can see the ...
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What are some common "gotchas" associated with moderation activities?
Flagging
Don't flag answers as "not an answer" unless they don't attempt to answer the question at all. If an answer post at least tries to answer the question, don't flag it, even if it is factually ...
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Why did my edit that fixed several spelling errors get rejected as superfluous?
Spelling and grammar edits are always useful and should be encouraged, not rejected for not being more substantive. If someone is willing to take the time to make the content here more readable, we ...
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Should I approve edits that only add related links?
yes, there's no harm in approving them provided they link to the official project sites
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Why were my 2 edits suggesting formatting changes to numbering rejected?
Probably a few reasons. The reasons why I would have rejected them are, in no particular order:
The edits were trivial and neither clarified nor substantively improved the answers
The paragraphs you ...
MokubaiMod
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Should users suggest technical edits?
The edit suggestion changes c:\\foo.txt to c:\\test1\\foo.txt to demonstrate that directories need to have their backslashes escaped as well. The reviewers likely thought that it was already clear ...
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Edit to correct a basic path syntax error in an answer rejected - why?
An extract from this answer What is the correct way to deal with obsolete answers? by slhck (a SU moderator) provides some clues (my emphasis):
The ideal solution in such a case, of course, is to ...
DavidPostillMod
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Managing user who edit only tags of several questions
I've the feeling he's doing that just for gaining reputation. This way
he forces also reviewers to spend time checking his edits, instead of
working on higher quality ones. Should / can we do ...
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Is a suggested edit that completely rewrites an answer appropriate?
Oliver reached out to me to let me know about the discussion here. Really appreciate that, thanks!
OK, so it probably helps to tell the whole story so you see where I'm coming from. Apologize for the ...
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OP edits the question himself instead of accepting a suggested edit.
Here's the review item. The post is deleted now, so I'll show the results pane here:
The edit was automatically rejected with no direct reviewer interaction. If it had been explicitly reviewed from ...
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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 a separate answer?
If this had simply been the case, of modifying the links that were ...
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Why can’t I edit this question but I can still edit others?
There was a pending suggested edit on the post. If you have less than 2000 rep, you can suggest edits, but you cannot suggest additional edits to a post that already has pending suggested edits.
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Why were my 2 edits suggesting formatting changes to numbering rejected?
Edits should substantially improve posts.
From Privileges - edit questions and answers - Super User
Tiny, trivial edits are discouraged - try to make the post significantly better when you edit, ...
DavidPostillMod
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Why was my edit, correcting a fact, rejected?
As a general concept, editing other people's posts is meant as a tool to help improve them without significantly changing their content - e.g., fixing typos, improving grammar, improving markdown ...
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When should additional information be an edit vs a comment vs a separate answer?
I'm in the habit of editing answers to add links to this relevant content whenever I find myself googling something in the answer.
Oh, for goodness's sake, don't do this.
I see the point of editing ...
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OP edits the question himself instead of accepting a suggested edit.
For some context here is what we see when reviewing suggested edits, as you may not be able to see the suggested edit queue yet:
There are options to "improve edit" and "reject and edit". This is ...
MokubaiMod
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Suggested edits still not approved
Please have a little patience: 4 out of 5 of your pending suggested edits are less than 10 hours old. You're lucky not to be on Stack Overflow where edits may take a full week (because the queue is so ...
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Question closed and Edit suggestion rejected
Your edit certainly makes the question clearer and more answerable, but it's not certain that the OP intended to mean what you wrote.
You're assuming they're entering a list of items sequentially by ...
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Question closed and Edit suggestion rejected
As one of the community members who rejected your edit, it clearly overstates what you believe the question to be is far from a simple enhancement; you are putting major chunks of words and ideas in ...
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Should users suggest technical edits?
If it was one of my answers I'd accept it. Otherwise, it depends, but I'd not auto accept it and I'd more likely than not pass on or reject the edit.
Part of the problem is the lack of context. In a ...
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What should I do with suggested edits to the wiki of bad tags?
I have to disagree with the accepted answer.
Why reject a perfectly good edit? What if the user put a lot of effort into the edit - why penalize them and risk them not participating in something ...
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What is wrong with me?
In this case - there's two things. As they are, the edits are on a question that feels not materially improved by them. Its not you, but its a guessing game question that's somewhat likely to be ...
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Should I perform a duck test when reviewing suggested edits?
The phrase "the goals of the post's owner" can be understood in many ways (as can "strive to"), and if there's any definitive official guidance on what it's supposed to mean, it doesn't seem to be ...
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Useful tag edits rejected
There are different considerations for generally improving tagging on a question vs. cleaning up a deprecated tag.
Organized Tag Cleanup
Cleaning a deprecated tag is for the purpose of site ...
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Useful tag edits rejected
I feel that I should throw in my 2¢,
because one of those suggested edit rejections was mine.
I rejected it
partly because there were so many other things wrong in the question that you ignored
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