Sometimes we reject an edit for reasons not covered by the list given. Then I always give my reasons in the custom field. However ever since we need two approvals for an edit it happens that other users will later accept the edit without seeing my reject reason.
In the most cases this is perfectly fine but sometimes I reject an edit rather than improve it to point a new user to existing editing practise:
Examples:
- A low rep user is not yet familiar with our format style and edits terminal output as quote
>rather than Tab indent$. Then I tend to explain this when rejecting rather than improving the edit as the quote marks will come back, and its rather tedious to convert them back to tab indents in many cases. - A user just copy & pastes content to a tag wiki without giving reference to the source quoted. I feel this again is a reason to reject. I explain this shortly in the hope we will see more link to sources in the future.
Nevertheless I have the impression that my comments may not be read, be it from the original author of the edit, or from other reviewers who don't know anything about my reject or my reasons for rejecting when they had accepted an edit.
Hence my questions:
- Are our custom reject comments prominent enough to be read?
- What happens to these comments when two other reviewers accept this edit?
- How can we make them readable to other fellow reviewers?
