Questions tagged [wording]
For the suggestion of improvements to the phrasing of text shown to users by the Stack Exchange engine.
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What's the process of changing site description?
Currently all the SO family sites have similar taglines, except SO in Russian:
What's the procedure of changing such taglines for SE sites in general?
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Change wording for Close item in review queue
On low quality posts queue I faced with a weird situation:
Screenshot was translated by Google.Translate
Original strings for Close and Delete look very similar:
This question cannot be fixed and ...
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Do we do more than "frown on" plagiarism?
I just realized that How to reference material written by others reads as follows:
Plagiarism - posting the work of others with no indication that it is not your own - is frowned on by our community, ...
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Improve post-notice for sourceless answers
On questions like this one that have a tendency to be answered by low-rep users who don't cite any sources, mods can add the following post-notice:
Want to improve this post? Provide detailed ...
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Reword the description of the blocklist page on the mod tools list
This recent post clarifies that the <site>.stackexchange.com/admin/blocklist page includes not only fully blocklisted content but also content that generates warnings (such as, for example, ...
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Site email says closed questions are not visible to the public: wrong
The website documentation has been corrected, but this email form letter
is still inaccurate
From: Stack Overflow <[email protected]>
Subject: Your question has been closed
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In election primaries, the voting breakdown tooltip misidentifies election nominations as "questions"
Tooltip on expanded votes on nomination post says the following:
But this nomination notice is not a question!
As far as I see in translation data base this is the one source string (with plural ...
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"Report as present" dialog says I'll be marked as "absent" rather than "present"
In the moderator dashboard, there's an option to record yourself as absent / inactive. I did that a couple of days ago, but now I'm back from a holiday and wanted to report myself as present. There ...
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Remove "by" from "deleted by" in timeline
It seems that the "by" word should be removed from the "deleted by" phrase in the post timeline. E.g.:
Since "by" is already placed in the title of the next row in the ...
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Bounty expiring soon and completed simultaneously according to the inbox notification?
Is it normal according to common logic that "expiring soon" bounty "is completed"?
bounty expiring soon
Your bounty on question "Post notice should indicate a self-deletion ...
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Strictly Necessary cookies text: "then" not grammatically correct
When customizing cookie settings, the following is shown under Strictly Necessary (click for bigger/sharper image):
These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly and cannot be ...
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Congratulations Text for "Known Bad" Reopen Queue Audits is Wrong
On successfully passing a "known bad" audit in the Reopen Votes review queue (i.e., correctly voting to "Leave Closed"), we are presented with the following congratulatory banner:
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Rephrase text for possible duplicate with no answers
One more time I got a possible duplicate notice on my question. This time there's no answer on the suggested question:
I know the duplicate mechanic on SE, but completely disagree with the current ...
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Is it "Low quality answers" or "low quality posts"? [duplicate]
I haven't visited Stack Overflow's review queues in a while, but this morning I did (thanks winter-bash-2022!), and noticed that unlike other sites I request (Super User, Open Source SE), Stack ...
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Phrasing of "Squared Away" hat not clear
The Squared Away hat's description is (without clicking on it):
Post 4 answers on 4 separate sites during Winter Bash
Which is unclear for many users, I came across 3 users asking in chat that why ...
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"Asking a good question" starter sentence sounds off
This is what the popup says when you attempt to ask your first question here on Meta Stack Exchange:
Asking a good question
This is NOT Stack Overflow - Ask your question on Stack Overflow
What is ...
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Remove "Your Own" wording from a new site proposed in Area 51
At the end of Stack Exchange sites page it is mentioned:
I know there are many ways of interpreting "own" as like mentioned by Shadow The Kid Wizard over here:
Single user can propose a ...
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Stackstatus.net is no longer a blog. Can we stop calling it that?
I was greeted with the "offline for maintenance" page just now. It appears to have been a short service interruption, as the page I was looking for loaded just fine 2 minutes later.
Looking ...
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Change screenshots in /help/privileges/reduced-ads [duplicate]
In /help/privileges/reduced-ads, the screenshots seemed to be old. Please update them such that they match with how they currently appear.
Even the instructions need some improvement I suppose. Under ...
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Text in "Next privilege" (Access moderator tools) popup in Summary page of profile doesn't make sense
I was looking at my profile summary and noticed this:
If I click on my Next privilege tracker (i.e., for Access moderator tools), a pop-up containing this text is shown:
Access reports, delete ...
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Change "removed from network questions" to "removed from hot network questions" in HNQ timeline and revision history
The timeline and revisions for this question includes:
became hot network question
And, subsequently:
removed from network questions
Should the latter entry say "removed from hot network ...
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Newsletter says to cast a vote "by" the date of the end of the nomination phase instead of after
Recently I got an email with the MathOverflow newsletter (digest) which contained the following text:
2022 Community Moderator Election
The community moderator election is currently in the nomination ...
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Inconsistent wording between list and filter for some flag states
In the flag summary, the filter on the right uses different words for some statuses than the list:
"pending" in the list is "waiting for review" in the filter
"self-removed&...
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Can we please have consistent wording regarding "profile" and "account"?
The words "profile" and "account" have been used interchangeably in multiple places across the network, but I am not sure if it is the right thing to do. Also, I could not find any ...
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Tag synonyms in "Add to watched tags" search bar can be confusing
This small issue arises when adding tags to your watched tags list through the "edit" button, on the side panel of the main question list.
When searching for tags through this search box, ...
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The /help/staff page inconsistently uses "label", "marker", and "tag" to describe what denotes staff
In /help/staff, this is mentioned:
How can I identify a staff member?
Staff fall into one of two categories, with different indicators:
General staff - these staff members represent the bulk of our ...
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The blog post announcing the Student Ambassador program is missing a space in "StackOverflow"
In the recent blog post Stack Overflow is launching a Student Ambassador program. Here’s how to apply., under the section "Why are we launching this program?", the "Stack Overflow" ...
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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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"The BEST answers are voted up and rise to the top" or "The MOST POPULAR answers are voted up and rise to the top"?
The banner at the top of each Stack Exchange site says "The best answers are voted up and rise to the top". Would it be better to say "The most popular answers are voted up and rise to ...
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Reword "and 18 or up" on election pages
The blurb at the top of the nomination tab on each election page (example) now says:
In the nomination phase, any community member in good standing with more than 300 reputation (and 18 or up) may ...
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In the top banner shown to users who haven't logged in, the site description is inaccurate on per-site metas [duplicate]
Let's take a look at the text in the top banner of Ask Ubuntu Meta:
Ask Ubuntu Meta is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Well, Ask Ubuntu ...
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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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Typo in user rep league?
There might be a small typo here. It reads:
"month change"
Should it not read:
"monthly change"
This should be the same for "year" - "yearly" etc.
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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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Update the post notice for post content hidden in the edit history (displayed for posts flagged as spam/rude/abusive) to mention plagiarism
Could the wording in the post notice which is displayed when the post content is hidden from non-moderators who can see deleted posts (done when there is a helpful spam or rude/abusive flag) be ...
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"so long as they follow the Creative Commons attribution requirements" - but they don't
I reported two scrapers which were violating the license* recently, as I'd done some time last year as well. I got this email in return:
Hello,
All content on Stack Exchange is licensed under either ...
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Could a different wording be given to the email sent when a bounty has not attracted answers or comments?
I received an email saying:
bounty expiring soon Mar 28 at 11:03
Your bounty on question "How can I set up networking under Basilisk II / MacOS 8.7?" is completed. You must award it to an ...
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Confusing text "Search options not deleted" on search results page
When doing a search, the search results header shows a confusing text:
Search options not deleted
While this is correct, it only shows non-deleted posts, it may lead to confusion: most users don't ...
GlorfindelMod
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Wording of declined flag can be confusing
"Your recent flag was declined" can be confusing. Which recent flag? My recent one was helpful (really), which is why I bring this up, because I thought I had another recent one declined.
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Help page for first question review is treating questions as answers
I took a look at the help page for the new first question review (Using Security.SE as an example) and it says:
Share feedback if the post has the potential of being a good answer, but cannot be ...
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Improve Meta awareness banner on private beta sites
Sites in private beta (current example – screenshot for when it reaches public beta) have a yellow banner on all pages making users aware of the Meta site:
got a question about the site itself? ...
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We're changing the word "Active" to "Modified" below the title on question pages
In the coming weeks, we're going to implement a small change: We are changing the word "Active" to "Modified" in the subhead displayed below the title when you're viewing a ...
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Inconsistency in deleted questions/answers descriptions when looking at others' lists as a moderator
There appears to be a small bug in the text displayed at the top of the page when viewing /users/deleted-answers/#### and /users/deleted-questions/####.
When following up on a flag at /users/deleted-...
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Will we get hats for fulfilling hat requirements on per-site-metas?
Will we be able to get hats from per-site-metas (not sure that's the right wording)?
Let's say I have two comments with 5+ score on Meta Stack Overflow. Would I get Starfish?
List of possible hats:
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Wrong phrasing in defender of the unicorn instructions page [closed]
Once you reach the defender of the unicorn page, it says
There she is! You have are almost there!
shouldn't it say either
There she is! You are almost there!
or
There she is! You have her almost ...
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Message shown to OP when their question is closed as a duplicate [duplicate]
Group keys into same object was closed as a duplicate. A few minutes later the OP opened an identical question Put the objects together given key with same value
I closed that as a duplicate of the ...
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Improve wording for "Welcome back" message
Every time I see the welcome back banner
I think that some time ago I've visited that question's page, but actually this message is about visiting the site.
Could we improve the wording to refer that?...
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Reviewer workflow is confusing to OP approving suggested edits to their post
When an OP approves a suggested edit, the following message is displayed:
The message "...continue reviewing suggested edits" is confusing because it pertains to a reviewer, someone with ...
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Confusing error message when trying to add a blocked(?) tag
A while ago, I was trying to edit a question on Web Applications, but got a rather confusing error message:
The tag [charts] is too similar to [charts]. If you think this new tag should be allowed, ...
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Rename "Comment" in edit review queue to "Edit Summary" (which is also what it is called when editing a post)
I have noticed that when you submit an edit, the edit summary is called "Edit Summary", while when reviewing edits it's simply called "Comment". I feel like it would be good to ...
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