Questions tagged [edits]
For questions about the process of editing, how edits work, and other general inquiries about the edit system.
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Since when are users no longer able to view votes on their own pending edits?
I recall in the past that if you suggested an edit, and then clicked on the link to the review task, you would see that your edit was pending review/you were not able to review that item, but you ...
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Incorrectly encoded message about editing deleted post
An attempt to edit a deleted post by a direct link (when you don't have enough reputation to see deleted posts, or you're an owner of deleted post), e.g., here gives a raw text page stated:
This post ...
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If a user edits a closed question and checks the "Submit for review" option, does that mean only 2 reopen votes are needed to reopen the question?
Assume an SE site is configured so that 3 reopen votes suffice to reopen a question, and that one needs at least 3k rep to cast a reopen vote.
If a user with less than 3k rep makes an edit and checks ...
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I can't edit anything on MSE or network-wide right now: HTTP 500 - "An error occurred submitting the edit."
When I try to edit anything on MSE right now (when I click the "Save edits" button), I get a red box that says:
An error occurred submitting the edit.
In my console, I see:
Failed to load ...
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Should edits to one’s own answers be isolated and highlighted? [duplicate]
I’ve observed that some answers include sections at the bottom that are explicitly labeled Edit or the like. But there are also many other answers that (as the system indicates) have been edited but ...
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Flagging question edits [duplicate]
From where can I flag edits made by a user with enough score to do so, but which not only do not contribute anything new to the question but also modify the meaning of it or vandalize it?
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It should probably be clearer that large numbers of minor edits aren't useful
When you edit a page on a site where you don't have enough rep to edit without needing approval, it says this:
Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
We welcome edits that ...
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How to deal with mass typos fixing, should they be a part of homepage?
There are several questions about the issue, but related to low-rep users, e.g. Are we discouraged from fixing typos and misspellings on Stack Exchange sites?
I would like to discuss how should we ...
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Is it allowed to review others' suggested edits to make space in the edit queue for your alternate account to make suggested edits?
I wanted to create a new account on Stack Overflow to be a chat bot in their chat server, but to chat, an account would need at least 20 rep. So I started to make edits, but the edit queue kept ...
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Is it acceptable to generalize a question without changing the author's intent?
Example: What happens if electronic device only uses 20ma but power supply gives 700ma?
Would it be acceptable to edit the content and title to say "What if a device draws less current than the ...
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"Go get it" button for editing badges should link to the 'Annotated Posts' page
If I'm tracking one of the edit badges and click on the progress bar, it offers me a link to 'go get it':
Clicking on the button takes me to the Low-Quality Posts review queue. It's actually quite a ...
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How to edit and cope with low quality posts
I've taken on the task of making edits to low quality posts as a way to relax and help keep the SE sites looking professional. One thing that has been aggravating me during this process is the ...
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Should I search for posts to make trivial edits to?
Is it OK to search for posts that contain trivial errors (e.g., spelling mistakes, signatures, taglines), and then systematically edit each one, correcting only that one trivial error without making ...
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Mark edit as "copy-edit" to preserve the original author's name
This is a suggestion similar to the one put forward here
Could we have the ability to mark a change as minor in questions or answers?
but with different mechanics, so I'm posting it separately.
I ...
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There is no moderation for edit summaries
Editing summaries aren't peer reviewed, moderated or otherwise subject to the protections that posts and comments are. Therefore they can sometimes become snarky and harmful. Should an otherwise-...
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Why do I have to click "Reopen" after I checked "This edit resolves the original close reason" during edit?
If I check This edit resolves the original close reason during edit:
Then after saving edited question I must click "Reopen" manually myself.
Shouldn't this be automated? Isn't the fact of ...
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Ranking users with most edits and close votes on a specific tag
A while back I asked this question about writing a query which would rank users based on their number of close votes on posts related to a specific tag: Table of users ranked based on their number of ...
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Unable to translate buttons on attempt to edit help center root page
Moderators can edit some help pages. For instance root one. There're two buttons in edit mode (Save changes, Cancel) that don't have source strings in Traducir to translate:
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Warn BEFORE of 6 character edit limit, not AFTER
It was a bright sunny day. We noticed something amiss in somebody else's post. We thought, "Let's be helpful, and fix it."
So we set our hand to (gasp) editing it. We thereupon see:
Your ...
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Automatic logout does not change title bar when editing
Sometimes I start to answer a question on Stack Overflow and then get distracted for a bit/few minutes and get logged out (likely some timeout or whatever) from my "automatic login" from ...
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Attempting to suggest an edit while the suggested edit queue is full using the "Edit" button within a review task fails silently [duplicate]
I'm reviewing this First answers item and I attempted to edit it, but the suggested edit queue is full.
I prefer to use the "Edit" menu button as opposed to the "Edit" review ...
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Can we alias a question's title without creating a separate question?
For a long time, we have marked questions as duplicates as way of aliasing another question.
For example, I saw a question on a Stack Exchange site which was titled something like:
I am *onfused with ...
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How do I ask long clarifications on an answer?
Someone has left a thoughtful answer to my question.
I have a bunch of clarifications, and for now I've left these as a set of long comments. Is this the appropriate way to do this, or should I have ...
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Edit stuck in limbo - what do I do?
I edited my question (How do I resolve Wix form 'Couldn't submit due to temporary issue' error?) to reverse changes someone had made (and seemed unhelpful).
The review of my edit has been ...
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Opining a successful-edit-count-based two tier suggested edit system
This is a bit of a follow up to the 'answer' here.
From the time editing was first introduced, it's a system that both has been refined, and occasionally has scaled poorly. In general, the mechanics ...
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Are edited questions bumped to the front page?
I got a warning for multiple edits to a question on Mathematics, stating "Editing posts, even deleted ones, bumps them to the front page which takes precious front page real estate, and can be ...
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Edits no longer have a grace period?
Usually edits made within 5 minutes of making or editing a post are rolled into a single revision in the edit history. However, it looks like edits are getting listed separately even if they were ...
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Users without full editing privileges are unable to edit their own posts or community wiki posts when the suggested edit queue is full
Someone just complained here that they were unable to make an edit to their own post because the suggested edit queue was full on the site. This action used to work perfectly fine before, as edits to ...
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Image markdown - remove to re-add isn't smooth
If I edit a post to swap a quick phone snap for a properly cropped version, straightened & punched up in Photoshop to be more legible, better exposed [a dozen reasons I edit many photos a day ...
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Capitalization for image placeholder
I found out that in process of posts improvement by this user, the phrase "enter image description here" used as a default image description placeholder is often (always?) being capitalized ...
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Suggested edit reviewers can unilaterally approve or reject unlimited edits per day
When a user completes a review item, a POST request is made to /review/task-reviewed/<review-id> supplying (among others) the reviewer's choice (taskResultTypeId).
In the Suggested Edits queue, ...
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Why are questions edited so much and so thoroughly?
Often when I ask a question, the tiniest mistakes in it will get edited out almost immediately, sometimes entire sentences will be reformulated in a better way. I am assuming that's done by actual ...
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What are the limits with edits to questions?
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I understand the basic idea of the question editing functions, both the person asking and the person reading or answering's perspective. From my understanding:
Person asking do edits because:
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When submitting a tag wiki edit from the revision history during the grace period, I get redirected to the site home page rather than to the wiki page
When I make a binding edit to a tag wiki or tag wiki excerpt from the revision history as a 20k+ user during the grace period (editing the individual portion rather than both at the same time), and ...
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How can I quickly/easily edit all posts with a given tag, to change some to use a different tag?
Example:
On Emacs there's long been a tag, auto-complete-mode, which corresponds to a particular (now old) Emacs package autocomplete.el and its command/mode auto-complete-mode.
For several years now, ...
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When editing an answer, the OP highlight on comments changes users when comments are expanded
When using the full page editor (like someone without editing privileges), I noticed that the highlight to show who is the "original poster" on comments will swap between the answer OP and ...
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When a question is edited, and you're currently viewing the question, the tags disappear
Note: I'm unsure if this is specific to Stack Overflow only or not.
If one is currently viewing a question, and then the question gets edited by someone else, the tags disappear.
As you can see in ...
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Is attribution required when using LLMs to improve the grammar/formatting of a post?
Let's say a user has posted a question/answer with the following content. The English is slightly convoluted but it's good content otherwise:
On enormous territory of park there are lakes, rivers, ...
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Check pending edit limit before allowing user to initiate a new edit [duplicate]
I've been reviewing questions in the First Questions review queue on Stack Overflow and frequently find it necessary to make minor edits to questions. I understand that I am limited to a specific ...
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Users should be able to save an answer draft on a closed question if it's edited for reopening
I recently came across a question that had been closed for being unclear, but I think I knew what the asker meant, so I edited the question and checked the box to have it reviewed for reopening.
I ...
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Edit-locking comments is really not all that useful [duplicate]
Anyone who has been on SE for any length of time knows the bypass of copying the comment, deleting it, and reposting it. Yes, that puts our revised comment out of order, but that is often acceptable.
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"There are too many pending edits on Stack Overflow" Is there an auto-deletion?
Core considerations are at the bottom if you're short on time.
Is there any sort of auto-deletion of suggested edits after a certain amount of time? It gets pretty annoying to have to wait for ...
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Minor edits on meta site
Early today I posted this question. Very shortly afterwards, the question was edited, with a large number of minor, totally unneeded edits made:
None of them make the question any easier to ...
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Yet another suggestion for questions bumped by retagging
There have been countless questions on the topic of question bumping to the main page for tag edits. I won't review or rehash any of that. Here are two suggestions I did not spot as having been made ...
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Give editors and edit-reviewers visible reminders to flag NLN where appropriate
Proposal
In the edit UI for non-suggested edits, add a reminder near the finish button to flag NLN on comments where appropriate.
In the review UI for suggested edits, for reviewers who are about to ...
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Can the link replacement tool be used on typos in regular text?
I discovered a simple typo that is pretty prevalent. Can this be fixed with the "link" replacement tool, given that it's actually "a simple Find and Replace tool"? (That linked Q&...
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Editing the body of a question can sometimes cause the title to change without any prompting ...
There is a trimming routine that removes or changes certain punctuation at the end of a title. For example if you try to end a title with ... it will be removed from the title, when you hit submit. ...
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How to follow / get a notification from tag wikis edits
As of 2022, is there a way to follow / watch / subscribe to a tag wiki or to filter suggested edits to only view suggested edits for a specific case, i.e., staging-ground?
There are some old feature-...
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Is it appropriate for another person to edit a question to link to informational resources that could have prevented the need for the question?
I'm browsing through questions with extremely high scores on stackoverflow.com to find one-liner questions that I think show a lack of research effort. In the process, so far I have found two ...
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Title and body are opposite questions; should we edit for consistency?
This question is solely about (editorial) style.
Consider the following (made up) examples:
Title: Is foo safe?
In the body: Is foo unsafe?
Title: Can baz affect qux?
In the body: Can I assume qux is ...
