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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Using code ticks for technical term highlighting considered harmful
Lots of users across the Stack Exchange network have developed a habit of using code markup (backticks in Markdown) to give technical terms special formatting that stands out visually. This only seems ...
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Please, please, please, don't edit out spam links
So, a Wild User Appears. He posts several answers of dubious quality, all of which include a wildly unrelated commercial link. In other words, SPAM.
Now, in each of these cases, well intentioned ...
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Would you like to help shape up our site for Grand Theft Auto 5?
GTA V came out recently. It's quite popular, and has resulted in a humongous traffic boost to Arqade, especially mobile traffic. In fact our mobile traffic was high enough to be over half the mobile ...
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Edit wars are bad. Don't encourage or participate in them
I've noticed a disturbing trend in the past couple of weeks - there's been a surge in the number of edit wars, including some that have spilled over into Meta.
I keep having to cut and paste the same ...
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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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Should a question be modified to include multiple subjects?
Recently, I asked a question about the game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which is part of a series of video games called Counter-Strike.
Another user pointed out that there was a similar ...
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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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Closed 'mod recommendation' Skyrim question - Can this question be improved and then reopened?
This question has been recently closed by a moderator for being a mod recommendation question (which I reckon, as an extension of the 'game recommendations questions are not allowed' policy):
How ...
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Is there a definition of 'too minor' edits?
As defined by the FAQ on editing:
Edits are expected to be substantial and to leave the post better than
you found it. Common reasons for edits include:
To fix grammar and spelling ...
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Changing Pokemon to Pokémon
Many of my posts about Pokemon have been edited.
Is changing Pokemon to Pokémon really something best for this exchange? It seems to make it harder for Googlers to find the answers to their ...
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Please fill in the alt text for images on this site
When linking an image, the word in square brackets is the alternative text (alt-text for short). This gets displayed if the browser can't show the image, but also gets used by screen reading software ...
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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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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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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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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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Who is Brett White and why was he a moderator?
Who is Brett White?
Is he an employee of Stack Exchange?
Does that tiny psi/fork/trident in his username mean he's part of CHAOS?
Is he going through highly viewed questions and editing their titles ...
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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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When should we edit old questions?
During the discussion of this question, two users suggested that editing older posts is harmful. Since that question really has nothing to do with editing old questions (it was suggesting that people ...
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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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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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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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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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Should we include the game name in questions titles?
Firstly, I personally believe this is not a duplicate of Question with Vague title as this question is a lot more specific while that one covered a broad number of points and was thus difficult to ...
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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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Oh, look, it's "unreleased content" again
So, apparently we recently had two closure/reopen wars on questions about diablo-3 and specifically the upcoming Reaper of Souls expansion ("What armor and weapons do Crusaders use?" and "How much XP ...
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Is it okay to heavily edit out subjectivity?
A recent question caught my eye because it asked a perfectly valid question, but only one of the eight paragraphs in the question was actually directly related. The others contained subjective ...
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Is it okay to edit and completely delete my question to ask your own?
I asked this question some time ago and it was "closed" by moderator badp who then (10 hours ago) edited the question, removing my entire text and replacing it with his own related question.
I ...
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Do typos or grammatical errors in titles warrant an edit more than ones in the body?
I know that edit significance has been brought up several times here on Meta, and that the consensus so far is that an edit that only improves on a few typos is too minor. However, does a typo in the ...
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American English spelling vs British English spelling?
Is it correct for people to "correct" British English spelling into American English?
I can't see anything in the FAQ about this, and while the site is American in origin, I don't think the British ...
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Question Titles that are not Questions but Titles
Should question titles be actual questions or can they be titles? I've been going through a bunch of old questions, and it seems there are quite a few questions with titles that aren't question but ...
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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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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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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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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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How can the Community user bot edit questions?
It seems like the Community user that's supposed to be "a background process to keep this site clean", somehow figured out that an answer contained an unformatted quote and formatted it.
Is it ...
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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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What is "rolling back"?
I have seen the gaming.SE Badge "Cleanup: First Rollback" and searched for it but couldn't find anything on to what it refers.
What does this mean? How do I roll back (presumably a question, an ...
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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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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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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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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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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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On the meaning of 'proc'
In many questions and answers on league of legends, I see people refers to "proc" or "procing" like :
Do the hits from Lulu's passive (Pix) proc on-hit effects or count for number of hits?
Can ...
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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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Edits from deleted users don't display normally
While browsing the site, I ran across this slightly odd-looking answer:
Normally, when a user edits their own post, the full signature isn't duplicated, so I looked at the revision history and found ...
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Whats with the recent spurt of chain editing?
There's been a lot of old questions that gets edited and bumped up to the front page. This usually happens in spurts as one person decides to do a particular game they're interested in and makes some ...
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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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Should we edit closed questions?
In the last day, I've noticed a few edits on questions that have been closed for a rather long time (example 1, example 2). While some closed questions can be simply reworded or rephrased to become ...
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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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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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