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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 already provided by the author, I suspect your edit would have been approved. However, the answer was already complete, so providing a link that wasn't cited, ...
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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 answers as a way to correct a problem, such as a lack of clarity in what was written. Adjusting HTML markup and fixing spelling errors at the same time may be ...
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I've submitted too many edits, which isn't unusual for me, and when I try to edit anymore posts, I get the message saying that I need to wait for my other submitted edits to be approved (as you do).
You might want to slow down on the amount of edit proposals you are making. Manu of your recent edit proposal have been rejected. Your edit proposals seem ...
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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 full) or on Stack Apps (yes, those are edits pending since last November).
I approved some of them but they'll need more reviews. In the meantime, I would like ...
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The comments by fixer1234 answer your question pretty well,
but, since I’m one of the people who voted to reject your edit,
I’ll confirm them, in a bit more detail.
The question, before your suggested edit, was over 900 words long
(as computed by the “Word Count” function in Microsoft Word).
Your edit left ten words untouched (based on a visual inspection
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answered Jan 14 at 6:26
G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica'
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Edits which unambiguously improve posts should be accepted. Adding links to documentation is an improvement. There is no good reason to reject such an edit.
However, suggested edits are reviewed by numerous people, all of whom have their own feelings and opinions. Some people have a strange bias against edits to old posts, for some reason, while I would see ...
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"Instead of asking what to buy, try asking how to find out what suits your needs." - That is exactly what I did!?
You actually just described all the difficulty you had configuring your current hardware and the defects your current hardware has from your perspective.
Yet within the few minutes it was open, two users commented, who had - in ...
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