Timeline for I don't think new users are effectively taught how to write good edit summaries. How can this be fixed (and should it)?
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| Mar 18, 2016 at 21:49 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | P.S. An aspect of the problem is that some editors (specifically, low-rep ones) will compose a halfway decent edit summary (e.g., "Corrected spelling and improved formatting") and then use it over and over again, even when suggesting an edit that the canned summary doesn't fit. Perhaps the machine could check to see whether the current edit summary is identical to one of the five most recent by the same user (not unlike the check when changing password). Of course, (1) sometimes the same summary does apply (e.g., during a mass re-tagging), and (2) this would be trivial to circumvent. | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 21:40 | answer | added | Scott - Слава Україні | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:23 | history | edited | Superbest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
grammar erro in edited sentence; fixed number agreement for the nouns
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| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:20 | answer | added | Caffeinated | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:16 | comment | added | Superbest | I wasn't sure if this should be a discussion or feature request, so I chose the latter because I could only imagine fixing this by altering the engine. | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:16 | history | asked | Superbest | CC BY-SA 3.0 |