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What's the recommended course of action for edits in the edit-queue that are basically corrections of typos in the question title (no other substantive change)?

e.g.:

Also, you'll notice these are all from the same user, who appears to be correcting misspellings of "database".

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  • approve them if they make sense?
    – jcolebrand
    Commented Jun 28, 2011 at 3:33
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    I don't get it; why did "YOU" approve 3 and reject the fourth?
    – John
    Commented Jun 28, 2011 at 4:04
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    On June 22nd, this user appears to have hit the rep cap purely from approved edits, all of which appear to be more typo fixes in titles. Dang, this guy deserves a medal or something!
    – McCannot
    Commented Jun 28, 2011 at 13:58
  • @camccann There is such a medal already. It's called the Mortarboard badge. He'd also have gotten Strunk & White, and if he repeats it on two more days, Copy Editor :)
    – takrl
    Commented Jul 17, 2011 at 11:08

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I just noticed these were title changes!

In titles, I think it is much more important to get key words correct -- so in the case of title edits, yes, these are OK and I would approve them.

If they were trivial body changes, I would be much less supportive of this, per https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/in-defense-of-editing/

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Reject or improve the suggested edit.

It's like putting on sunglasses on a face like a bucket. The rest of the body could do with some minor work and couldn't hurt fixing up the rest of it.

Yes, titles are the first thing you see. But when you're in there and the rest of the post is a mangled mess like running your fingers over the body of the Toxic Avenger, it's a bit of a bait and switch.

It's like something to do with margarine.

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  • something to do with margarine? hmmm
    – jcolebrand
    Commented Jun 28, 2011 at 3:45
  • Margarine... The horror!
    – Shog9 Mod
    Commented Jun 28, 2011 at 3:57
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    I can't believe it's not a question! Commented Jun 28, 2011 at 4:19

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