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Why do comments also show up when you want to edit a post? [duplicate]
Why do comments under a post show up when you want to edit that post?
I know they should show up for moderators to review suggested edits. But why should the one who wants to edit also see the ...
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Why does the suggested edit queue have a fixed size, and can we delete that list items? [closed]
Stack Exchange sites have a suggested edit queue, visible to the users who have the edit questions and answers privilege.
How to delete one for edit queue element
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Has the text describing the Reviewer Stats changed recently? [duplicate]
Has the text describing the Reviewer Stats changed recently? For example: this suggested edit
Currently, it is: "XXXXX has NN edit suggestions approved, NN edit suggestions rejected, and NN edit ...
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“0 edit suggestions canceled” in review stats: what is that used for, is it not same as “rejected edit”?
I recently saw this in any of my edits in the “editor stats”:
user1176409 had 95 edit suggestions approved, 10 edit suggestions rejected, and 0 edit suggestions canceled.
I was surprised when I saw ...
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I have three pending suggested edits but there appears to be only one post in the Suggested edits queue
I have three pending Suggested edits on ELL, however there appears to be only one post in the Suggested edits queue:
Here are the three links to the pending suggested edits: here, here, and here (...
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How can a user with a reputation of <2K quickly identify a good edit candidate post and avoid a poor edit candidate post?
I would like to avoid making suggested edits on poor edit candidate posts, as discussed in this post.
There does not appear to be much advice here on how to select a good candidate post for making a ...
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Why can I not see my approved suggested edits on posts that have been deleted?
I recently noticed that I lost 2 points of reputation. I clicked on the reputation tab to see why and I came to the conclusion it was connected with a post that I had edited (as a <2K user on SO) ...
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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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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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Bad edit approval [duplicate]
An edit on Ask Different was approved, but how? The Approval page currently shows two rejects and only one approval. (It does not help that the two rejects are by top users on the site and the ...
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How can I suggest a tag synonym when the system doesn’t recognise a tag?
At LawSE there is the united-kingdouk tag which has a typo and is frequently used by at least one user necessitating others to edit posts and replace it with united-kingdom.
To negate the need for ...
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What are the policies with regards to edits that are submitted to a post, when no action is taken from the OP?
I read this answer, and noticed this paragraph:
With regards to the OP's approval of an edit, if the edit is not approved by the OP it will most likely be reversed or rolled back after a while. If ...
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Is there a way to get my edited post to be reviewed faster?
When I click on the "Edit" button in a post in stackoverflow.com, I always get a red box saying
Suggested edit queue is full
Where can I find my last edited post that is in the queue to be ...
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Why didn't my edit go in the Review Queue? And if it did why didn't I get +2 rep? [duplicate]
I edited this question to show the current terminology, and was expecting the canned response saying it was waiting for peer review - however the question updated immediately.
My rep at the time was ...
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Pending Edits, and Limit on Number of Edits [duplicate]
I am trying to Edit the questions posted on Computer Science. But, I am receiving this:
You have too many pending edits. Further edits cannot be submitted
until prior edits have been approved.
My ...
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How do I handle suggested edits changing code block style?
I'm new to reviewing suggested edits, but one pattern I noticed is that many edits only change the style of code block formatting (mostly from indented to ```-based, example), in a way that does not ...
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I can't fix a typo in an answer to my question [duplicate]
There is an answer to my question in which the user typed recovation. I can't change it to revocation because of limits of Stack Exchange. Why do we need those limits???
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Does follow-post not notify when an edit that went through was suggested?
I've been testing/trying out the follow post feature.
In this post, I was not notified of the edit. The edit was suggested and approved (not a direct edit). To be sure I checked my global inbox, and ...
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Why can't I improve / reject and edit this suggested edit?
I just encountered a suggested edit on a post that is possibly spam. Given its score, it's likely to have a couple of pending spam flags already. What is interesting, and a possible bug, is that the ...
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When do you gain tag wiki edit suggestion privileges? [duplicate]
Empirically it seems that I just gained tag wiki edit suggestion privileges (ability to add a suggestion to the review queue, not to get my changes approved without peer review) in Stack Overflow when ...
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How do you become a "Trusted Community Member"? [duplicate]
When I submit a suggested edit, a notice would say that my edit "Won't be viewable to other people until it is approved by trusted community members" (sorry if I did a quotation mistake), ...
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The approve, reject or improve edit option makes the Rendered output window appear on the right
The approve, reject or improve edit option in a post makes the Rendered output window to appear on the right instead of the usual way of appearing on left. This forces us to scroll to the right to see ...
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How did this suggested edit bypass the 6 character limit?
This suggested edit, while a useful one, only edits a single character in the answer. How did it manage to bypass the minimum 'edit size' of 6 characters?
When I try to change just the 'B' to a 'C' ...
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Why isn't the reputation gained for editing a tag wiki refunded if the tag is burned?
I suggested a tag excerpt edit that got approved. But later, the tag was burned and the wiki "orphaned". Instead of getting a -2 in my reputation, the rep stayed and the link led to a 404 ...
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Suggested edits queue for a question I edited and profile reflect different stats on the number of questions I have edited
(I think my question is different than this one because that is asking for help in a specific example about deleted posts while I am asking about inconsistency in general.)
In the suggested edits ...
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Can we have some statistics on suggested edit reviews?
There are two (possibly three) ways to review suggested edits:
via the review queues
by visiting a Q&A page where the edit was made, and clicking on the edit (1) link underneath a post
authors of ...
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Why is the Community User the sole approver of this tag wiki suggested edit?
My suggested edit for the tag wiki of the [login] tag on Literature Meta seems to have been approved solely by the Community User:
What gives?
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, so I've tagged it ...
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Why is this suggested edit of a question title displaying peculiarly? [closed]
I'm looking at a suggested edit to the title of How can I get exposure to mandarin usage and pronounciation? at Chinese.SE:
I almost rejected it, thinking it would change the title to the following:
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How can a user with high reputation submit a suggested edit?
According to this: How do suggested edits work?, registered users without the edit privilege (2000 rep) can suggest edits to any post or tag wiki.
Users whose reputation is more than 2000, their edits ...
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I mistakenly approved a suggested edit. How can I undo it? [duplicate]
My confused mind swapped old/new state in suggested edit and I've approved an edit that introduced rubbish when I was thinking I was approving an edit that removed rubbish.
How can I undo this?
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Empty suggested edit by an anonymous user [duplicate]
I just got an empty suggested edit by an anonymous user in the "Suggested edits" review queue:
The edit shows no change in the Markdown or in the rendered output of the post. This can also ...
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Copy question or answer source text when "Suggested edit queue is full" [duplicate]
For users below 2k reputation who need to copy a question or answer source text, the only option nowadays is to use the "edit" button and copy the source from the edit page. When the "...
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What will happen to a suggested edit if in the meantime, the owner gets the privilege to edit posts?
I was thinking of all the ways an approved Suggested Edit may not lead to an increase in reputation for this SEDE query. Then a thought occurred that what will happen if a user suggests an edit and ...
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Review queues, when will they add new items?
I am aware that review queues sometimes don’t immediately add an item into the queue. Such as if a new user posted, the queue doesn’t put the item into the queue immediately. According to my ...
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Suggested edit pending but the post was already edited and approved by another person
I suggested an edit on Ask Ubuntu at 2020-05-02 21:20:17Z.
When I checked later, it was approved by schrodigerscatcuriosity at 2020-05-02 22:37:17Z rejected by one other user. I noticed that it had ...
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Consistent wording for 'improve this question' button when not logged in
When you're not logged in, there is no 'edit' button underneath a question; it shows 'improve this question' instead:
However, once the suggested edit is submitted, the link changes to 'edit':
Is ...
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Suggested edit doesn't seem to edit anything
How was an anonymous user able to suggest this edit? (Warning: it has an offensive edit summary, which has been edited out in the screenshot below.) It doesn't seem to change anything, not even when ...
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What is the purpose of showing score in suggested tag wiki edits?
While reviewing suggested edits, I found that tag wiki edit suggestions have vote score on the left
In my understanding the score is for letting reviewer know how important/useful a post is so that ...
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Do tag descriptions/wikis edit suggestions no longer require two reviews? [duplicate]
I tried to search for new and active topics on the subject here.
As far as I know, only mods can approve tag description/wiki suggestions by placing one vote.
By I just approved a suggestion for ...
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Proper SE Site to ask about freelancing consideration ( like best price suggestion, freelancer sites ) [closed]
I like to ask this question, which i think is correct to asking in electronic SE site because i asked some question there ( maybe Freelancer SE also be good ) but i prrefferd to ask here ( and think ...
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Can the edit summary be changed by users doing an additional edit from edit review? [duplicate]
I have observed a few times that, when I suggest an edit and that edit is accepted by someone else, but they add a further edit, then they seem to duplicate my edit summary in their own edit. However, ...
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Where can I find my suggested edits to a post if they were rejected in peer review? [duplicate]
I have edited an answer.
I was curious whether my suggested edits (which I made obviously with best intentions) where accepted or not. I think they were rejected, because I cannot find them in the ...
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Is it allowed to change a question this drastically? [duplicate]
This morning I got a notification that for an answer of mine a sugessted edit was made.
As you see in the link above the question title states "Excel VBA - There isn't enough memory to complete this ...
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Can we make changes to the quoted portion in a question or answer?
We know that we can edit to correct spelling, grammar of questions and answer. But what about the portion in block quotes? Do we have the liberty of correcting grammar, punctuation or terminology in ...
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Why does this question not have an "edit" button? [duplicate]
I am not seeing an edit button on this question: I'm making a program which needs to make a division by 10, but it throws Floating Point Error (ignore the spanish) (I wanted to add a "nasm" tag.) ...
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Suggested edit rejected by moderator but still pending review
As part of the 'project' to rescue TinyPic images (the site is shutting down), I've submitted a couple of suggested edits, including this one which was rejected by a ♦ moderator. Note: I don't ...
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If a user suggests an edit that gets rejected as "spam or vandalism", does he/she lose 100 reputation?
If a user writes a post that gets marked as "spam" or "rude or abusive", he/she loses 100 reputation. Does this also happen when the user suggests an edit that gets rejected as "spam or vandalism"?
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Why can I edit a post without peer review, but when peer reviewing it's not enough that I approve it?
I have 2000+ reputation on arqade, this means that my edits are applied without going through peer review and I can review suggested edits. However, when I review edits in the review queue, then it ...
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Why is my question still unclear after lots of edits according to suggestions? [closed]
My question is marked as unclear for 2-3 days. I've edited it a lot and made more specific, answerable. But it's still marked unclear.
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A suggested edit cuts out allegedly malicious links. How do I safely check that claim and what review action do I take?
I came across this suggested edit on Movies.SE this morning. The edit cut out two shortened links (TinyUrl), claiming they linked to a virus, and added a disclaimer not to click said links in the ...
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