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Today I came across a few edits that try to combine parts from two different answers into one by editing information from answer two into answer one.

This is done by a third party and not the original posters of answer one or two.

How should I handle this ?

It seems to me very inappropriate as it takes from one answer and bolsters another, which is of course taking away from answer two.

Any adviceHere is an example from today where the user "tom" took information from the answer by "Steve Saporta" and pasted it into the answer by "oli"

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Should I accept an edit like this ?

Today I came across a few edits that try to combine parts from two different answers into one by editing information from answer two into answer one.

This is done by a third party and not the original posters of answer one or two.

How should I handle this ?

It seems to me very inappropriate as it takes from one answer and bolsters another, which is of course taking away from answer two.

Any advice ?

Today I came across a few edits that try to combine parts from two different answers into one by editing information from answer two into answer one.

This is done by a third party and not the original posters of answer one or two.

How should I handle this ?

It seems to me very inappropriate as it takes from one answer and bolsters another, which is of course taking away from answer two.

Here is an example from today where the user "tom" took information from the answer by "Steve Saporta" and pasted it into the answer by "oli"

enter image description here

Should I accept an edit like this ?

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Mark Kirby
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Edits that combine answers

Today I came across a few edits that try to combine parts from two different answers into one by editing information from answer two into answer one.

This is done by a third party and not the original posters of answer one or two.

How should I handle this ?

It seems to me very inappropriate as it takes from one answer and bolsters another, which is of course taking away from answer two.

Any advice ?