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Should we make minor edits to correct mistakes?
Recently, I've made a couple of suggested edits to correct mistakes in posts, which were both rejected. One of these edits was to correct a misspelling of Somalia (it was spelt Somolia, which was a) ...
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Question edit view displays same text for two edit descriptions
My edit's very atypical description exactly matches the one for @msell's edit. Either his description matched mine exactly or automatically duplicated it, or the page is displaying my description ...
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How it comes I was able to edit someone else question?
Saw a question and noticed it could use some formatting on code, clicked on 'edit' and did the work. Then it occurred to me that I don't have rep enough for this. Checked the reputation list and ...
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Please stop feeding users editing rep for minor alterations
Over the last few days, a user has edited dozens of posts. That, in and of itself, is not bad. However, his edits are:
In many cases too minor to bother with.
In many cases, are bumping trash to the ...
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New Edit Approval process should not lock me out of editing (it does)
Recently, the way suggested edits were handled changed. No longer do I just happen upon that edit (1) link, click it, and hit approve or deny - there now needs to be two approve votes.
This is fine.
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What to do with edits that add new content to an existing question/answer?
I try to review edits as good as I can. Mostly these are corrections in spelling or formatting changes, which is fine. But now I just encountered an edit where another user added completely new ...
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Why can't I edit on Meta?
I've noticed that no posts (questions or answers) on Meta have a link to edit them. I highly doubt every single one I've looked at has a pending edit, so why can't I edit any of them?
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Is editing a question to remove all content okay?
This question was closed, and in response, the author edited the question to remove all the original content and encourage us to vote for deletion (edit history here). I rolled the edit back because I ...
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Why are the “edit” and “retag” links missing from this post?
I saw this question - Collision detection problem - earlier and wanted to edit it, but the edit link was missing:
I thought that perhaps it was because the question was too new. However, on coming ...
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Is there a shorthand version for posting links to other questions in a comment?
I read the comment formatting help and there are several shorthand links available to refer to pages within the SE network.
Quite often I post links to related questions in a comment and this turns ...
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Why is there a minimum character limit when editing an answer?
I tried to edit an incorrect answer but my edit was rejected because it had TOO FEW CHARACTERS!
This is silly. If I'm fixing an equation from dy/dy to dy/dx, I shouldn't be forced to type nonsense ...
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Editing limits- disproportionate to impact of edit
I recently came to edit a question, which required the adding of a couple of format tags as his original code couldn't be read, as the original code contained some SO-specific markup. But when I ...
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Genre specific tags
Now I have tag privileges again, I've been trying to do my bit to help organise some questions. However, I did see a couple with very vague tags such as 'game-design'. Obviously this is fine, but it ...
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Editing questions for spelling/grammar reasons
Is this a valid reason for editing? I'm not talking the extreme of:
hi i wnt 2 mk a gaem bt i dnt no how...
but since we do have a lot of non english native speaking people here, sometimes ...
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What should the standards be for editing posts?
I've spent some time editing other people's posts to fix various trivial errors, and I was wondering what kind of standards make sense for our site as to what types of edits are appropriate for our ...
