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Problematic editing-in of links
Can we have a policy specifically addressing editing in links that add no useful content to answers?
E.g., http://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/178457/revisions
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Possible changes highlighting/rendering bug in Edit Review page
So, this is an edit I just got approved a few minutes ago: http://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/73579
I see a very minor discrepancy that may still be a bug though.
First, the ...
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Can the system check for “[enter code here]” in the text?
I wanted to answer this question, and while doing so decided to change the two commands in the text to preformatted text. IIRC I selected the text in the rendered output, and not (as I should have) in ...
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comments to editors
Sombody has just edited my answer. I don't see an argument for this edit. It seems that I cannot address him in a comment though he is shown as editor. I remember similar situations
Wouldn't it make ...
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Editing before vote to close
In this question on meta I requested that the [Edit] button on the Close Vote review queue items would not imply that I want to leave the question open.
The cause of this, is that questions are ...
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Editing items that should be closed even after editing
Today the following item was in the Close Votes Review Queue:
Its bothering me On iftop i can see ip-172---2.ec2.internal Connected to my ubuntu ec2 server for long long time ?? This address ...
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Why aren’t simultaneous edits locked out (made exclusive)?
Twice today I have clicked on the “edit” link for a post,
spent several minutes working on it, and then clicked on “Save Edits”, only to be told
Another edit is awaiting approval for this post.
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How to remove tag?
I accidentally created new tag while editing a question. I need to remove from this site. Is there any privileges required to do so? Or It will automatically get removed after I delete from the ...
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Edits: How trivial is trivial?
I've had a scan and can't find a specific meta question for this.
I'm at the stage where I'm being offered edits for review. There are quite a few edits where the change is to modify maybe two lines ...
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Is it right to edit a new user answer right away?
I know etiquette about editing has been heavily discussed, both on this meta and on StackExchange-meta but I couldn't find an answer for a particular problem.
I found this answer on Unix&Linux. ...
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Is it OK to massively edit a question after receiving a couple responses?
I asked a question while not knowing enough to clearly state my issue. (Here is the question: hashlib vs crypt.crypt() in Python. Why different results? .) I received a couple responses that helped me ...
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Since I hit 2K rep, I no longer get reputation from edits. Is this intentional?
The title basically sums it up. I just edited a question and while I'm not 100% sure that I didn't get +2 reputation from the edit - since I didn't look at my reputation count before, only after - my ...
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Is this behaviour adequate? Shouldn't edits add content?
Hi fellows,
I don't want to point fingers in here, but there is a user that has all his reputation from removing "thanks" and "hi". Except for a single answer with one upvote. I know (I read ...
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Only 5 edits a day allowed
Can't find this rule that I just encountered when editing my own questions, to include 1 extra tag that just got created, listed anywhere, but am guessing that someone will find it.
But I digress.. ...
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Remove useless-uses-of-cat or not?
Sometimes I come across superfluous uses of cat, e.g.:
$ cat file | grep pattern
instead of:
$ grep pattern file
or:
$ cat file | somecommand options
instead of:
$ somecommand options < ...
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inform about edits after downvotes
You can change your vote for a question (or answer) after it has been edited. Quite often at least questions improve soon (because the questioner is told that the question is bad and what information ...
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Should questions be updated with information gleaned from comments?
Answering a question correctly sometimes requires asking for the original asker to try some new things or post some new information. These requests are often asked as comments to the question. ...
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Edits making links inline
Systematically going back through posts and making every link inline does not necessarily improve the wiki. There are a couple of instances where it has the opposite effect:
where the link is in a ...
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Why can't I edit a question I have reviewed
Or, why are my approvals of other user's edits not actioned in the same way my own edits are?
I have noticed that, should I approve or improve an edit by another member of the community under the ...
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Is there a shortcut for reviewing suggested edits?
I was just about to edit a post full of errors when I saw that there was already an edit waiting for approval that covered about 95% of what I was going to do.
Is there any shortcut where I can ...
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Wiki contributions: using and attributing external sources?
When creating tag wikis, there is a lot of already established documentation that can be adapted to and used directly in the wiki for this purpose. I made an edit on arch-linux, using Arch Linux's ...
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Suggested edit custom reject reason box UI issue
The suggested edit rejection dialog looks a bit strange right now - the custom rejection reason text box is a bit too wide compared to the dialog box.
Chrome 16:
can't resize the custom text box ...
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Editing older questions frowned upon?
I was on the review tab and forgot I had selected "View All". So I went around editing badly formatted questions and inadvertently bumping them to the top of the front page.
Is this frowned upon by ...
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Is it ok to change the meaning of question titles?
Is it fine to change the meaning of a title because the OP didn't know what he/she was looking for?
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Editing best practices
I was looking at this recent question.
Out of curiosity, what's the deal with removing "Thanks!" and the meaning of the question in the topic? (I think version 1 was perfectly fine.)
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Why can't I edit this post?
Strangely, the edit link is missing from this post when I tried to reformat the wall of unformatted text in his post...
How do I access a digital camera drive via usb after safely removing it?
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Why was my Question edited?
I recently asked about Project management software, and someone changed it? Why is the edit better than the original Question?
update: I've changed the Question to be more specific.
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editing guidelines for Unix SE
So you guys have granted me enough rep to edit. :D
But before I dig into people's questions/answers, what conventions/rules/guidelines should be followed when editing?
