Questions tagged [editing]
Editing refers to how one should propose/make edits on others posts. Use this tag for questions about how to make edits, or the editing system.
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Edit tag wiki has a hidden pending edits queue limit?
In the past couple of minutes I proposed a couple of tag wiki edits. After the third or so edit, the edit page no longer shows the usage guidance and tag wiki as editable fields. Instead the ...
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Improving question on championship privilege
Re When does/do a champion/s 'defend' vs start from scratch? Difference between 'champion' and '(recurring) tournament winner'?
Sorean suggests
This is probably better suited for english....
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I provided Random Seeds to an existing answer, but my edit was rejected. Why?
This answer mentions that you "will need to keep restarting until it appears." because it is a "rare node". I have provided the Game Seed that you can enter, so you are not ...
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Markdown preview decodes URL characters, but the final post does not
When adding raw URLs to posts, the preview output differs from the final rendered result. Preview will decode any raw url into the actual characters, however, once posted, the URL decoding is not ...
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What do we do with a Dead Link in a post?
It took me a bit to not start singing a shanty there...
[Ahem] So I came across an old question of mine, it is a very old question; to the point where it could be deleted and no one would notice. Do ...
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Make Tag Wiki edit limits/bans more obvious (Why is it not explained nicely?)
In the past few minutes I submitted 3 tag-wiki edits. Lacking sufficient reputation, they are placed in a queue for peer review. When I now try to edit the fourth tag it seems I cannot do that. There ...
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What to do with an overwritten question with an open bounty?
I'm referring to this question, which previously was asking "How can I execute at a chest with a specific pattern of certain items?"
Several edits have occured, also because OP was ...
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Why was an edit to include information from comments reverted by a moderator?
The user SE - stop firing the good guys edited this post with important highly upvoted, useful information from the comments that did not change the meaning of the post (it clarified that 'side ...
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Why was this question's title reverted to be in the '[tag] - [question title]' format?
This is regarding this question which is currently titled: MU online - are there accumulated benefits to raising stamina early in the game for high HP?
I have previously changed the title of the ...
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Can I change my edit approval/rejection flag?
I was looking at the suggested edits for a post and I did not think that the changes proposed were encompassing enough to warrant a modification to the post, so I rejected it. After rereading the ...
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Is an edit adding a transcript to an image containing mostly text considered a meaningful edit?
Someone in chat just asked about an edit to a question where they added in a transcript for an image where the question asks about certain text within that image. Essentially, one of the reviewers ...
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Should I approve an edit for an old question?
When reviewing suggested edits I came across this edit. I noticed that this edit was for a question from 2011. I was unsure whether I should approve this edit, which was just to add some relevant tags....
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Is there some way to request peer review on an edit?
I just edited this answer, I just reached 2000+ reputation and the edit got immediately accepted. Is there some way to turn this off?
I´m fairly sure this was a good edit, but I have done bad edits ...
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What to do when answers contain links that are now borderline malicious?
In regards to this old question, the answer listed is no longer valid as EA sent the site in question a DMCA and shut it down. What's worse though is that the site now links to a cheat website that ...
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Should this question be edited, or should a new question be asked?
This question was asked and answered today, a game-identification question where a user quickly identified that the provided screenshot was from the game Metin 2. The asker commented on that answer to ...
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Review queue "edit" link does not display warning messages
When attempting to edit a post from one of the review queues earlier today, it appeared that the "edit" link was non-responsive.
Opening the question outside of the review queue, revealed the ...
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Is there a limit on how many posts you can edit?
Is there a limit on how many times you can edit? Sometimes the edit button doesn't come up but it comes up after another one of my edits is accepted. Is there a limit on how many edits can be pending ...
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Why is this image here?
I came across this edit page and it looks to me like there is an image in it that should not be there. I think this might be a bug because in this window we should see the raw text of the image aka ...
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Why is edit to remove incorrect information rejected?
Yesterday I suggested an edit to this answer to correct an error in an otherwise correct, well structured, and accepted answer.
While the change is easily verifiable the edit was rejected with the ...
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What's with people editing my question(s)?
I know this isn't immediately an extremely specific question, but here is the rest of the explanation. I saw somebody edited my question, and they really screwed it up. I spent over an hour composing ...
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Is editing a question to make it more generalized acceptable?
So yesterday, this question was asked.
It assumes that the user themselves caused the change and the title reflects that. I answered it, explaining that it was a change for everyone that went in ...
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Page crash when trying to add tag
I am trying to edit this post, adding the pt tag. I can open the edit window just fine, but once I type in "pt" into the tag field, the page locks up. Typing in "p" works fine, but adding the "t" ...
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Are my tag edit privileges revoked?
When I go to attempt to edit a tag wiki, it redirects me to this page:
The tag definitely isn't deleted and it's also not a post as this words it. What is going on?
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Disrespectful users... (Please read in its entirety)
I will be honest and direct.
Before doing anything, please read the full text, I made it as simple as possible to have less problems to read it.
Some people downvote without even trying to read the ...
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How long will my edit ban last?
I was editing some of the wiki tags, and made a rather basic mistake of copying material from sites like Wikipedia. This may seem like blatant error to many of you, but I am a relatively new user, and ...
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What happened to my edit?
I edited this question last night to clean it up and this morning to my surprise my edit seemed to go through but not by me. I assumed maybe the OP "Reject and Edited" but then changed ...
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How can I edit a typo?
Today I found an answer that has a typo (misspelled gastly), wanted to edit it but couldn't because of minimum character amount. What to do in cases like this one?
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Should I edit this question to be more generic?
I am referring to this question.
The OP originally asks about purchasing and playing multiple copies of No Man's Sky, which is not currently released. (From what I understand of the rules of this ...
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Is editing my own posts an approved-of way of earning reputation?
I just discovered a user editing his own answers on old, inactive questions to have his posts on the first page of the "active" tab. That means more people stumble across the Q&A, and many of them ...
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User keeps editing questions incorrectly
There 's this user that goes around any question he can find and edits it. What the issue is, his edits add exactly zero value to the question. Most of the edits are few new lines, where he sees fit, ...
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Extremely trivial edits from 2k+ users? [duplicate]
What's the policy guideline here? Flag the question/answer for intervention by moderators?
Examples of extremely trivial edits:
... end will add towards your total, from testing it myself...
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Rejected edit on an out-of-date answer
So, there's a answer which I had upvoted quite some time ago that is now out of date. Since almost no one is currently paying attention to it, and I'd like to reverse my upvote to a downvote, I ...
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How to manage a question which answer might change at some point? [duplicate]
I just answered to this question : How to enable Survival Mode in Fallout 1.4 Patch. The problem was that the mode that the user was looking for was not implemented yet. The answer is good at the ...
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Was this rollback appropriate? [duplicate]
This is the revision/post I am curious about.
Now, I'm not going to start a rollback war and I'm not here to criticize this user's reasoning over why the rollback was needed, rather, to make sure ...
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Please don't discourage new users from using this site
Don't discourage strange or odd new users to use this site. I saw this question with a score of -8 and closed. (I've edited it recently) It was asking about filling some hotel rooms using cheats, ...
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Why was my edit of a question title rejected?
As far as I understand, putting the name of a game (aka a tag) in a title is not needed at all, unless its in the flow of the question.
Yet one of my edits was rejected because: "This edit does not ...
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Should we edit in a question that was not there without input from the asker? [duplicate]
I was originally going to leave this as a comment on the question that prompted this, but it was a little chatty - and the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to have larger implications for ...
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Suggesting the "quiet edit" toggle; Would it solve the implication of editing old questions?
Every now and again, I see some old content that could use an obvious edit. This might be something as simple as some bad spelling or grammar that made its way through, or a series of questions that ...
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As an editor, do I have room to improve a question even if it changes it a little?
Last night I came across this question in the First Posts Review Queue:
What do I need to do when getting "not enough storage spaces" message?
Being a Fallout Shelter player myself and ...
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Updating an out of date answer versus keeping author intent
It is a given that, with time, questions and answers will become out dated. Good answers will not always apply to future patches, and questions may concern issues that simply do not exist in newer ...
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Suspicious edit
I found this question, where an answer had been flagged to be removed, due to low content.
As it stands, I would agree. The answer in question is half a sentence, at best. Not exactly what we strive ...
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Hitting Ctrl and then 'Enter' twice when improving a suggested edit seems to submit it twice - but the second revision is blank
I was reviewing a suggested edit which I chose to 'Improve and Edit'.
Whilst editing I tend to use the Ctrl and arrow keys to jump across words quickly. I went to insert a couple of newlines with ...
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Why can't I edit this question?
Recently, I came across this question.
I wanted to edit it because of obvious reasons. The title was bad, the question was bad and there was irrelevant text in it. Also, it had the wrong tag.
But, ...
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Code blocks aren't working correctly when placed after a list
There seems to be something wrong with the code formatting blocks.
It seems to be correctly working when done, like so:
Working!
Definitely working.
But, when placed after a list (markdown ...
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Is it worth salvaging a closed question that someone else has asked?
Is it okay to edit another user's closed question in the hopes of getting it opened, or should that issue rest solely on the OP himself?
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What does "Edit removed during grace period" mean?
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/revisions/201413/3
Revision did nothing to alter the question, but the description reads "Edit removed during grace period".
What does that even mean? If the edit ...
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Why was my edit removing superfluous meta content rejected?
I recently made a suggested edit on a question, removing the following content:
You may think that this question is nonsense. But to me it's NOT. I'm really curious why. So, down voting is your ...
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Overriding my Edit to the original, but not rolling back?
I edited this question today, and then someone proposed an edit that reverted it (basically) back to the original. I have no idea why?
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Is there any way to search for or find questions or answers with unapproved edits?
I want to help out and try new features by approving good edits. I'd there any way to find edits that have not been approved? Also how do I approve them if I find them?
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Does editing in information from a given link "change too much"?
I've edited the answer to this question but the edit got rejected for "This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost". The answer as it is ...
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