Questions tagged [suggested-edits]
For questions about the suggested edit process, which allows users without editing privileges to "suggest" edits, to be reviewed by users with editing privileges.
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Popup for suspending from suggested edits contains encoded symbols
The native browser confirmation popup that appears when a moderator is attempting to suspend a user from suggest edits contains encoded symbols in the username. Moreover, if the Cancel button is ...
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Accessing the Original Question After Edit Submission on Stack Overflow
I have recently submitted an edit to a question on Stack Overflow. My intention was to review the original question (before the edit was accepted or rejected) for verification purposes. However, I am ...
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The OP styling has disappeared from the suggested edit history [duplicate]
When a suggested edit was reviewed by the OP of a post, the "OP styling" - that background that shows up on the OP's username for comments and other actions associated with the post - used ...
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Posts deleted as result of a DMCA Takedown Request still visible via suggested edits
I got access to this question which got taken down due to a DMCA request.
screenshot for <10k users:
Now, in the timeline, we can see a suggested edit:
screenshot for <10k users:
If we click ...
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Let me do a retroactive edit even if I've already reviewed the pending suggested-edit
Currently, when I click the edit(1) button from the post-menu, it opens upon a box that allows me to review the suggested edit. If I've already reviewed the edit elsewhere, such as from the queue ...
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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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Add ability to opt edits into review queue for users who have the edit post privilege for Peer-Review purposes [duplicate]
Below 2000 rep, an edit to a post would go through screening, but having the privilege of having ones edits applied instantly loses the benefits of drawing attention to one's suggestions and makes it ...
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Suggested edit made by unprivileged editor not shown to editor in Review Queues
When reviewing first questions or answers sometimes there's a edit that is necessary.
When you don't have enough reputation your edit gets reviewed, but there's a message that you can see your edit; ...
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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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Make tabs on the review/suggested-edits page linkable
On a review/suggested-edits page there are 3 tabs:
Inline
Side-by-side
Side-by-side Markdown
Please make them linkable, e.g. via URL hash. Depending on the edit, one view might fit better than the ...
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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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Popup for an active edit beneath the post contains the button that doesn’t fit into popup
When the post has an active suggested edit tapping on the link edit (1) leads to the opening a popup. That popup doesn't fit into screen width in responsive mode on phone's screen:
Animation was ...
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Blocked from editing due to pending review
Currently a pending edit needs two approvals. I have edit permissions, but review queues are apparently slow today, and I cannot make some necessary edits because a second person needs to approve the ...
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Add back the highlight on the author's name on suggested edit reviews to their own posts, or indicate the author otherwise
In the old UI for the review queues, it used to be that if the author reviewed a suggested edit to their own post, their name would be highlighted:
(Source)
However, this is no longer the case:
This ...
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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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Able to suggest edits despite being edit-banned
(This question was migrated from the Worldbuilding Meta)
Recently, I've been working on the tag wikis over on Worldbuilding. I keep a lot of tabs open when working on projects like this.
After a few ...
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Anonymous user can see deleted post in Suggested edits queue [duplicate]
If a post that has a suggested edit in review gets deleted, anyone can still see the post via the suggested edit, including anonymous users.
Is it expected behavior that anonymous users (not logged in)...
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'Thanks for submitting an edit' banner is missing a space
After you submit an edit, the following banner is shown:
Thanks for submitting an edit.It is only visible to you until it’s been approved by trusted community members.
It seems that there is a space ...
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Banning a user from suggesting edits for a high number of days fails silently
♦ moderators have the ability to ban users from suggesting edits. On one of the other sites I moderate, I encountered a user of which I don't believe that user will ever make constructive edits (but ...
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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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Reviewer stats "button" does not appear as a button
When an edit review is pending, the notification window includes what appears to be a link to see Reviewer Stats.
On hovering, we can (barely) see that it's actually a button with a transparent ...
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It is now impossible to make a suggested edit to a tag-info
When trying to suggest an edit to a tag-wiki (or to create a new tag-wiki), I get an error saying: "The edit queue is full at the moment - try again in a few minutes!"
In theory, it could ...
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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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If you create a tag, you shouldn't get reputation by adding it to questions
There is a mass edit dump into the Suggested Edit review queue in Music.SE, by me. I'm suggesting several edits adding tritone, a tag that I created, to all tritone-related questions I can find. I don'...
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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 is it that a reviewer with full edit privileges cannot single-handedly approve an edit without improving it? [duplicate]
This issue seems to be a universal feature of SE. If a user suggests an edit, two users with access to the review queue are necessary to validate the edit, even if the first reviewer has full edit ...
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Why are approved edit suggestions worth reputation?
I'm not against it at all. I like it. I'm just curious what the rationale is/was. Of course I agree that good edits are good and that good things should be incentivized, but why with rep?
The help ...
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New feature to encourage improvement and discourage hasty closing of almost-good questions from new contributors [duplicate]
A new contributor asks a question that, on face value, is poor. Maybe the wording is off topic, or is phrased to solicit opinion, or is a little cloudy or asks too many questions.
If:
the situation ...
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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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For edit-suggestors with a streak of N approvals, only require one approval for their next suggested edit
Proposal:
If a <2k user's past N suggested edits are all approved ("good edit streak"), make their following suggested edits only require one approval.
For rejections, I can't think of a ...
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What should we do with suggested edits that change an image to be embedded inline by uploading a new copy?
I occasionally see suggested edits only changing the image from a link to inline.
I have rejected a couple as "This edit causes harm", but now I just click "No Improvement".
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 happens to edits approved by a user when the user is removed?
I've just had a -2 rep adjustment because a "user was removed" which, I assume, comes from one of my suggested edits being approved by them.
Now the user's account is no more does my edit ...
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Using keyboard shortcut E silently fails if there's a pending suggested edit
On Q&A pages, using the keyboard shortcut E opens the post editor (either inline if you have full edit privileges, or in a new page).
However, this fails if there's a pending suggested edit; in ...
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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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Add "improve and reopen/leave closed" options to the question edit queue
Whenever a significant edit is made to a closed question, the editor can choose to let it enter the reopen queue (with the "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be ...
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Give back the ability to indicate that a suggested edit is not helpful when improving
Prior to 2014, the ways by which a reviewer of a suggested edit could apply another edit when reviewing were different. The "Reject and Edit" option didn't exist, and the only option was to &...
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Reword the error message for a full suggested edit queue, as many users are getting confused with its current wording
The current message for a full suggested edits queue (where lots of people have suggested edits and the overall queue of pending edits from anyone is full) is:
Suggested edit queue is full
This ...
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'Suggested edit queue is full' displayed on every question I try to edit [duplicate]
I've tried editing more than 20 questions as a test and they all showed that Suggested edit queue is full message. Then I tried again literally 4 seconds after a question was uploaded (when I clicked ...
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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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An edit missing from PostHistory in SEDE
I was looking at the revision history of the question "Is all ordinary mathematics contained in high school mathematics?" on MathOverflow (revision history, edit suggestion). I was curious ...
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Approved edit to answer or question should generate an email notification, by default
On Ethereum Stack Exchange, I recently proposed an edit to an answer. Since I don't have enough reputation there yet, that edit needed approval. My edit was approved two days later, and I got no email ...
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Improve wording of banner shown after reviewing a suggested edit on one of your own posts
If you've reviewed a suggested edit on one of your own posts, you get a special banner since this feature request was implemented (emphasis mine):
You voted on this suggested edit to your post as ...
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Why can't I submit this meta tag wiki edit?
I am reviewing some tag edit suggestions on Meta Joomla Stack Exchange from a user looking to fix a broad-reaching problem. The suggested edit by the user wasn't as full as what is on Stack Overflow, ...
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Error when reviewing suggested edit on a deleted post from Q&A page
A post that, after an edit was suggested, is deleted, still has the "Edit (1)" link in the post menu. When you try to review that suggested edit from the Q&A page, and click 'Approve' in ...
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Is there a maximum time limit to approve a suggested edit?
Usually, my suggestions are approved within 48 hours, but I have a suggested edit that is pending now for several days. In this case, I don't see any chance that it will be either approved or rejected ...
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Show suggested edits in Markdown diff mode when something inside a spoiler is changed
I just encountered this suggested edit which states
added some periods; rewording
It opens in the side-by-side view, which only shows the change in the non-spoiler part of the edit:
It would be ...
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Tag wiki edit action wording: "This edit clearly improves the post"
I found a wording bug when reviewing a tag wiki excerpt edit:
The action options given refer to "the post" where they really should refer to "the tag wiki excerpt" instead, or ...
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Diff doesn't take stripped HTML tags into account
Yesterday I edited this question to correct the display of something in angle brackets, <root_music_folder>. The Markdown parser thinks it's an HTML tag, it's not on the allow list so it strips ...
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It should be possible to make edits after casting a reopen vote not count toward the reopen review
When submitting an edit after casting a reopen vote, the checkbox "This edit resolves the original close reason and the question should be considered for reopening" can't be unchecked:
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