Editing is a core, fundamental Stack Exchange value -- we allow editing by registered and unregistered users (if peer reviewed).
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Can't edit upon clicking “Edit” in a review
I was reviewing a possible "Low Quality Post" which could use some improved formatting. So I clicked "Edit" and got this screen:
So far, so good. But when I tried to edit the title or the body, I ...
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Editing a contradiction between the title and text of a question
The OP posted a clearly worded question in the title, but the question in the text was quite different. In response to a comment, the OP made it clear that the text question was the intended one but ...
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Edit yourself or suggest the OP to edit
I recently came across an edit where a user has significantly changed the content of the answer of another user (whether it was mathematically correct or not does not matter). I rejected the edit as ...
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Would it be appropriate to replace a question with a related question?
Assuming that you are the author of the original question and you feel as though you have made progress due to the answers given, but you are not satisfied or you have not reached the mathematical ...
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Raising the reputation for approving edit suggestions
Just now I came across this question:
Proving that $\lim\limits_{x\to 0}\frac{f(x)}{g(x)}=L$ implies $\lim\limits_{r\to 0}\frac {\int_R f(ry)h(y)\,dy}{\int_R g(ry)h(y)dy}=L$
If it has not been ...
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Rolling back edits counts as another edit
If you edit and then remove your edit manually then the two edits appear as a single edit under the heading "[Edit removed during grace period]". However, if you roll back your own edit then the grace ...
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More shortcuts while editing! Wanted: \$(\$) enter math here \$(\$)-Shortcut
By chance I realized that there are shortcuts in the Question/Answer fields. To my disappointment some useful ones are missing:
ctrl+$X_1$
$ enter math here $
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Flagging Archaeological Edits
The Archaeologist Badge requires one to have edited 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months. Now, I have no objection to people trying for this badge, but it can be slightly frustrating when someone ...
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Edit and spoil given answer or Repost a close- [duplicate]
I was, and still am, out seeking a way to get
the adjacency matrix of the dual of $G$ without pen and paper. hardmath answered that the way I posted the question, it doesn't have a unique dual graph ...
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Suggested Edits?
I was recently editing a post. However, my edit could not be submitted and the error said
It has to be a suggested edit."
What does it mean and does it have something to do with reputation?
EDIT: ...
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Editing MathJax in a question which will probably be closed
I just edited a lot of MathJax in this question, then voted to close it. Was that a stupid thing to do?
Is there any point in editing MathJax in a question that will inevitably be closed?
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Simplifying a question
I have a dilemma, which prompts my asking my first question on meta. I recently asked a question, which I think has some interesting aspects to it and I hoped the community would regard as well ...
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Editing a question based on accepted answer
Sometimes, a user will ask a vague question, and an answerer says "I don't entirely understand your question, but I will assume you mean _." The answerer then includes a re-written version of the ...
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Is it incorrect to make edits to math mistakes?
In this question I was told that it is incorrect to make edits to math mistakes, and instead inform the OP of such mistakes. However, this doesn't make much sense to me. When the equation or ...
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Why is the edit link greyed out?
I want to edit Stokes' theorem corollary but the edit link is greyed out and non-functional. What's up?
Update: Someone else edited the post, and now I can, but why was I locked out before?
