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This is my suggested edit: https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/2475066 and this is the question: Receiving "syntax error, unexpected '<'" in PHP.

I wanted to know why was it rejected, since I think this is clearly php and php related.

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I think this was because there was another more substantial edit that was made while yours was awaiting approval. There's nothing wrong with adding the PHP tag to that question, but there were other problems that needed to be addressed. It's confusing, I know, but when the Community account rejects your edit, it's usually because another edit overrode yours.

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    The timestamps seem to back that up: stackoverflow.com/posts/17558314/revisions . Floris' edit came at the same time as this one. Jul 9, 2013 at 21:30
  • Thank you very much for your answer. It was really useful. The bad thing is that now I have +1 number of rejected edits and also someone edited the question after reading this post and his edit was accepted... Jul 9, 2013 at 21:38
  • I've been seeing more and more of these unexplained Community rejections lately.
    – Undo
    Jul 9, 2013 at 21:50
  • @Undo there is nothing unexplained about it. When Community rejects an edit, it is either (1) someone improved a suggested edit and unchecked "this edit was helpful" or (2) someone with full edit privileges (OP, or >2Ker) submitted an edit before the suggested edit was approved. If you are seeing more recently, it's only because more of these occurrences are happening. Jul 9, 2013 at 22:56
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    @psubsee2003 I think he means it's not explained on this page. It just shows up as Rejected. They probably could tack a short explanation on there. Jul 9, 2013 at 23:01
  • @BilltheLizard oh ok.. the way it is worded, I wasn't sure. I agree the community rejections could use more detail. Jul 9, 2013 at 23:08
  • Possibly it shouldn't be "Rejected" at all. As that has a clear negative connotation. Perhaps "Cancelled" or "No longer current" and it shouldn't show up in the rejected vs accepted statistics Jul 10, 2013 at 8:28
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  • @Gilles Thanks, good to know this. Jul 12, 2013 at 5:50

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