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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Limit the number of times an author can choose "Submit for review" when editing a closed question
When a question is closed, anyone can make an edit and submit the question for reopening:
This can be done an indefinite amount of times, which can lead to situations where authors are making ...
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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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Do we still need the Retag privilege?
Ever since suggested edits were rolled out, the Retag privilege has been a bit... Weird. You can retag questions at any rep-level, even with no rep (or account) at all - you just need a few people to ...
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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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If a post featured on a tour is edited, will the tour page display the revised version?
I recently edited a question to format it more nicely, and edited its top two answers to make them more standard by our modern community consensuses and practices.
Then, I edited the tour page ...
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How can I cancel an edit I made on another user's question or answer?
Edits made by users who do not have edit privileges are placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
E.g., I edited someone else's answer. but changed my mind. If I'd edited my own question/answer, ...
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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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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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Notify me that the edit queue is full before I suggest an edit
I have been editing an answer on Stack Overflow, with some considerable amount of effort, and when I hit on Save Edits, the edit gets rejected with the following error. I got to know the meaning of ...
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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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Should 'Hi', 'thanks', taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?
I edit a lot of posts every day. I often run across posts with 'Hi' and 'Thanks' on the top and the bottom of the post respectively. I also run across things like:
--User
Should these items be ...
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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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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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"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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Is there an easy way to paste rich text into posts?
I frequently find myself trying to paste a quotation that contains some rich text, such as italics or links, and I have to reapply all the formatting myself.
It would be great if there were a way to ...
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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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Why is there no autocomplete for pinging editors?
I hope this example shows why autocomplete would be useful beyond the comfort of the commenter:
I recently had an issue where someone edited a post (which I'm not the author of) only to add one extra ...
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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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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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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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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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Why can any user edit any other user's question or answer?
I see an "edit" link after each question and answer. So I was wondering: how come any user can change any other user's question or answer? I think the reason behind it is that each one can share their ...
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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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Is there a way to find out how many edits I've made, network-wide?
I'm a prolific editor. I've made edits on a whole bunch of different sites. I'd like to know exactly how many edits I've made, network-wide. Is there a way to find out, perhaps with SEDE?
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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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Can I approve my own suggested edit once I reach 2k reputation?
Suppose I have 1998 reputation points and suggest an edit. Then, I get upvoted and have now 2003 or 2008 reputation points. If I run to review suggested edits, can I review my own edit? Do I gain any ...
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Answers don't like hair (i.e., "hair" at the beginning of an answer is automatically deleted)
As you can see I made an edit but it won't stick and gets deleted right away; another user with 20k rep also tried to make the same edit with no luck.
This is the answer where it happened. Also I ...
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What is 'Active Reading' meant to imply in the edit reason field?
I've noticed a few times the phrase 'Active Reading' in the edit summary, such as on this revision:
Active reading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnePlus_5 http://stackoverflow.com/legal/trademark-...
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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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What should I keep out of my posts and titles?
I've recently been editing out things such as "hope this helps" and "good luck" from posts and was wondering if that crosses the imaginary line that seems to not exist in the scattered mess of ...
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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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Trivial editing on my answer
My answer was just edited twice in under 5 minutes, both were in my opinion trivial, unnecessary edits. One even went as far as to add the word "link" to a jsFiddle, which I can assume was ...
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What is a 'rollback'?
What is a 'rollback' on Stack Exchange sites? I have seen this mentioned but I do not understand the term.
Please note: this question has been locked as it was used as a sandbox for performing ...
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The MathJax help link should point to a more specific guide
When editing a post on a site where MathJax is enabled there in "how to format" there is a link Mathjax help which points to a page not as useful as the Mathjax tutorial on http://meta.math....
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Style guide for Stack Overflow questions and answers
Recently I saw a question title of "combine 2 resultset".
I think the community deserves nicely written and formatted content. I guess this would require just ten more seconds from all of us. ...
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If a comment is deleted while the author is editing it, the edited text will disappear into the void without warning; show a warning in such cases
When editing a comment, if it has been deleted while the comment author is editing it, the edited text will completely disappear into the void without any sort of warning as soon as the user clicks ...
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Should question titles be phrased as questions? (A straw poll)
Should the titles of questions be phrased as questions?
For example, if I would like to learn good ways to "foo" a "bar", which is a better question title:
How do I foo a bar?
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Is there a way to disable the hotkeys?
I navigate with Ctrl+n,p,f,b (readline/Emacs keys), so that I don't have to move my hands too much and get RSI again. Is there a way to disable Ctrl+b being hotkey for bold?
Note that this is not just ...
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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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Don't I have the right to edit or delete my own content?
If someone answers my question, I can't delete it anymore even if
I have 10 downvotes.
After condition so and so, I'm unable to edit the comment.
I can't delete more than 5 answers a day.
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How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?
One of the sites which people reference on Buddhism.SE is Piya Tan's "Dharmafarers".
The URLs of reference material on that site have changed, for example:
Old: http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-...
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Can I prevent others from editing my question?
George Stocker edited my question, What unspecified functionality do you put in your software? where I specifically said that our software sending back stacktrace to one of our servers was a user-...
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Should we edit "Noob" out of titles?
I understand that the term "Noob" is used in many cases to illustrate the experience of the OP, but isn't the experience-level of the OP irrelevant to the topic of the question? Should we remove these ...
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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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What is a Wiki Edit?
What actually constitutes a "wiki edit" on Stack Exchange? How is that different to a normal question edit?
I have looked at the first 50-60 related questions and they all involve details.
For ...
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