Questions tagged [editing]
This tag is used for questions about editing on Ask Ubuntu.
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Should I edit or re-ask my question?
If I edit my question after attempting to fix a problem and the problem still exists does my question still get answered or do I have to re-ask the question?
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Can't format question properly because of character limit
I have a problem with editing this question:
Upgrade to 18.04, now sudo apt-get upgrade produces loads of insserv errors
OP didn't format the terminal output (which as you can see, is really long), ...
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Can not find Edit help
I looked in the help center but could find no listing for help in editing.
Can someone point me the way?
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What should I do about edit suggestions being rejected?
One of the members who has a higher reputation than me rejects my edits on the wrong basis. I know that on this site, we write Ubuntu and not ubuntu. Even when I write ubuntu, other members correct it....
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Need to edit the content of a constantly changing canonical question
After I flagged this canonical question: Is a clean install better than upgrading? to be locked to prevent it from being deleted after it had already received 3 delete votes, my flag was reviewed as ...
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What does it mean when my question is “edited” and how can I investigate?
My last question was "edited", can somebody explain:
What this means exactly.
How do I see what "edits" were made.
How do I contact the "editor" should I disagree with the "editing"
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Where to use blockquotes, pre formatted text and bold
I have a issue on where to use block quotes and pre formatted text and bold.
Please explain in depth where these should be used.
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Should we roll up the details in this question into its title?
I was reading this question on my phone today: extreme slow wifi on ubuntu 16.04
Within the body I learned the WiFi card is a rtl8723be which I don't own. Had Realtek 8732be been in the title I ...
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Changing “yesterday”, “today”, etc in Title to actual date
I was recently inconvenienced by Titles or Question bodies that say "a couple of days ago", "Yesterday" or "Today" because I was forced to scroll down to see question asked date and do some mental ...
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Should long questions be edited if parts prove irrelevant?
I posted a question with a fair amount of information as recommended. After some comments and a discussion in chat, I added some updates, and now the question is becoming too long. There will probably ...
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Please don't correct commands in questions unless you are sure the mistake is not the source of the problem
This might well be a dupe. If so, y'all know what to do ;)
When editing questions, make sure you don't eliminate all clues as to what was causing the problem by fixing incorrect commands, as this ...
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Does this sound a bit condescending?
I discovered this old answer thanks to an edit suggestion which may look somewhat unnecessary. The suggestion was to remove the following phrase from the answer
and read a basic bash programming ...
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Does the title of this question capture OP's question well enough?
OK, so we have this HNQ, which gathered quite a lot of attention, snarky comments, and a small edit war between me and another user about the title of the question. I've edited the answer to match the ...
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What to do when posts are voted down for no reason?
It's really annoying, a user asked this question:
I am wondering what the point of sh being symbolic linked to dash is? I understand that dash is supposed to be faster than bash, but I am uncertain ...
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What should I do when a user persistently insists on poor formatting and resists formatting improvements?
Context: https://askubuntu.com/posts/971884/revisions
I edited an answer of a user who got distracted and forgot the Markdown syntax, using 1) instead of 1. for writing an ordered list. Therefore the ...
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What to do with tag-only edits?
Here's the suggested edit in question.
The OP was asking about security on a shared WiFi connecton.
They had it tagged as 16.04, firefox, and security.
An edit came up that only changed the tag 16....
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Should I give extra information on an existing question when I have the same problem on a different version of Ubuntu?
I have a problem in my system. I searched for a solution on Ask Ubuntu and I found a question asked about the same problem but for a different version of ubuntu (12.10) and I am running 14.04.
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Does “convert to edit” let moderators move comments?
When moderators convert an answer to and edit--which deletes the answer and places its content at the end of the question--do they have the ability to move the comments from that answer to the ...
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Change in domain name
My domain name changed from bodhizazen.net to bodhizazen.com
All the .net links now apparently point to spam.
I got a message about this in the comments from your staff here
/usr/sbin/update-info-...
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If you want to edit an unsalvageable NAA post, please don't use the edit button in the LQP review queue to do so
This is somewhat related to this useful question:
Should we edit the answer we flag as NAA?
The answer said, in part:
If you're a 2k user, knock yourself out - after all, it's just your own time ...
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Can users be banned from suggesting edits?
A user can be banned from asking a question and from answering. A user can also be banned from reviewing. So is there any rule for editing posts?
Once they have at least 2k reputation a user can ...
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What is best practice for writing commands? With $ or without $? [duplicate]
I want to know what the best way to write and highlight a command is.
Many people (with a lot of reputation) write commands like this:
$ sudo apt-get update
If someone copies this command as it is, ...
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How many Questions can I edit in a bulk before they are reviewed?
I like to edit question and answers by new users, but I don't have edit privileges. So every time I edit a couple of posts I receive this message:
I just want to know
How many posts I can edit in a ...
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How to format release versions?
When making other edits to a question that mentions a release/number (e.g, Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS), my natural instinct is to bold it as it is usually the first thing I look for in a question and I have ...
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Messages to close voters in questions: are they OK?
It is occasional practice of some users to place message along the lines
CLOSE VOTERS: please don't close this as duplicate because it is not because A,B,C.
My question is this: Are we OK with ...
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Should edits get some rep for upvotes?
I was wondering, why shouldn't edits get a small bit of rep for an upvote? (Like 1 rep for upvoted question 2 for upvoted answer) Because I answered pretty badly, but someone (fabby) edited it and it ...
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What is our site policy on code/command edits?
Does this site have any sort of canonical policy regarding command/code edits?
Or, more exactly, when proposing an edit to code or a command (or just directly editing it as per 2k privileges), where ...
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Bad admin choices regarding a compound question
There is a compound question asked; a question that solicits a CLI method, and a GUI method.
I keep seeing places refer to the "partner" repository as a place I can get software, how can I enable ...
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An appeal to low rep users!
Please don't just delete your answers because you got negative feedback, improve them.
This has happened to me a few times recently, I have left a comment on an answer asking the OP to improve the ...
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I need to change my bio
I am kind of new to stack exchange and I was made aware of my profile. Someone on my Dev team played a little prank on me and wrote my bio and it is really embarrassing... It's basically making it ...
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What justifies an edit?
How big of a change should be needed before an edit is justifiable? For example a small grammatical error bugs the crap out of me, but I am too hesitant to fix it, whereas sometimes a question is ...
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Reputation with editing “to be closed” questions
As an avid editor for the main site, I have taken quite a liking to the 2 rep I get for passing my time, however when I see a question that is off topic, and yet messy, like this one, I still feel the ...
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Why limit edits?
When I get bored at school literally all I have is coming here and editing questions (hehe), but usually there aren't 3K+ rep users on the review queue when I'm on, and so I'm limited to 5 edits to ...
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Add icon to the composing editor to format keyboard shortcuts
Background:
Many questions require the user to describe used keyboard shortcuts.
These can be formatted through <kbd></kbd>.
Suggestion:
I would like to suggest to add an icon to the ...
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Reviewing tool should be less flexible by enforcing the Skip option rigourously
When you are reviewing posts, you are faced with three options: Skip, I'm done (after some change), Nothing to review.
Ideally, when you make a change like edit, flag, comment, or vote, the "I'm done"...
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Edit rejected as conflicted with a subsequent edit
As a beginner I usually answer questions very rarely as I think my knowledge not sufficient yet. So I read questions and answers as much as I can and edit questions to correct spelling and formatting ...
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What should I do if someone makes a bad edit to my post?
I've been searching to see if this was already asked; sorry if it's a duplicate, couldn't find an answer.
I've been wondering what I should do if someone bad edits my post?
For example, I explain ...
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Is it ok for my reputation to be edit-based?
In this post I asked whether I should continue barraging my peers with edits. I still have one question, though. I've made around 20% of my reputation off of edits. Is this honest, or should I cut ...
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Bug in the audit system?
I believe I've discovered a bug in the audit system.
I was reviewing this answer, which obviously needed some serious work:
So I clicked on the edit link, and it showed me this:
Which immediately ...
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Editor Privilege?
Speaking from experience, waiting for a suggested edit to be approved (before 2000 rep.) can be tiring and annoying. So what I want to know is if you guys think the following is a good idea. For those ...
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Offering a human translation for cryptic google-translated questions
If there is a question where the text was clearly google translated with a cryptic result, is it OK to ask the author to provide the text in the original language so that I can edit his/her question ...
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What Is Considered “Extra Noise?”
So what I see a lot of is people who will format a question as follows
Hello i am having an issue with question/problem
...
Insert question/issue here
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PLEASE HELP I CANT USE MY COMPUTER....
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editing user's posts
I recently was editing a post for grammatical and formatting errors, but also noticed that the post seemed to contain lots of useless information that was completely impertinent to the user's question....
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Someone is editing my question's tags and I disagree with their edit
As is suggested by Eliah Kagan;
In general, if you believe your question is de-tagged wrongly, here are some options at your disposal:
Read the tag's tag wiki and see what other questions ...
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Why did this edit get rejected?
My edit. Note that hg8 said
This edit did not correct critical issues with the post - view the revision history to see what should have been changed.
So he edits it himself. He did the same as I ...
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What to do with this specific answer variation in the question?
The following question has an accepted answer and open bounty that will be awarded to it as soon as the delay is over.
Bind Alt+Tab to a Logitech mouse button on Kubuntu
Now the OP decided to edit ...
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What is the consensus about hijacking the accepted answer?
I came across this question yesterday.
There is two different answer to this question, one has been accepted. Let's call accepted answer answer 1 and the other answer 2.
Recently answer 1 has been ...
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Show comments to a question, when editing that question with less than 2K reputation
When I edit a question, this is often in response to a suggestion in the comments. For this reason it would be very helpful if I could see the comments at the same time in the window where I am ...
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Make blockquote formatting button not destroy the source layout!
You ever had a post in front of you where the OP did mix up blockquote and code formatting? Not those easy cases where he/she wrote a > character before the paragraph himself, but those cases when ...
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What should be do with smaller edits?
I am going to pick on my own answer but I had 5-6 of these come up in the review queue in a row.
What are we supposed to do with edits that don't really add anything. For example https://askubuntu....
