Questions tagged [editing]
This tag is used for questions about editing on Ask Ubuntu.
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Edited a question, but it doesn't display my name
I edited a question (translated from Italian to English) and my name wasn't shown on the post. Then in my two and a half hours later I noticed that someone else's name is displayed there. How is that ...
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Order of operations when editing/flagging
A bit of a question and a bit of a PSA for others to potentially avoid the problem I ran into.
This question was originally unclear. The title did not match the question body, and there was (...
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Is translating posts using Google Translate acceptable?
I've seen several questions in non-English, where a user (typically high-rep) puts it into Google Translate. Here's an example (Wayback Machine if it gets deleted). I do realize that post had other ...
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Please explain the rejected outcome for this suggested edit
I'm on a bit of an "edit rampage" on AskUbuntu.
According to https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/1183929 ...
Two users rejected my edit and cited:
The edit does not improve the ...
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Which is better: editing someone's old but outdated answer to keep it up to date or making a new answer and adding a note to the old one?
I found a similar question in search but didn't feel that it answered this question.
Came up here:
My WiFi adapter is not working at all, how to troubleshoot?. I came across that answer while I was ...
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How much can an answer be modified before it should be its own entity?
An edit was in the review queue for this answer and it’s clear that the author of the edit is doing everyone a favour with the additional details being added:
Given how drastic the “hijack” of the ...
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Please don't flag link-only answers as Very Low Quality
Lately I notice that many link-only (or link-mainly) answers are being flagged as Very Low Quality, so I am taking to meta to ask y'all to use the Not An Answer flag for link-only answer (LOA) posts ...
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Community consensus regarding using backticks or 4 spaces for code
There might be similar posts regarding this in the past. So, please forgive me.
I often find it hard to edit a post which has lengthy code (indented using 4 spaces). Also, there are higher chances of ...
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Using the keyboard markers for other things
I was using the <kbd> tag for version numbers, like Ubuntu 20.04 and @muru edited my question to remove the markers, saying
we don't need keyboard formatting for version numbers
Actually I was ...
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Code fence formatting problems to watch out for and fix
Since the start of 2019, code fences have been fully supported on Stack Exchange sites. By code fences, I mean the use of opening and closing triple backticks to format a code block. The effect of ...
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Is it right to edit an answer so that it's almost identical to an existing one?
Today I realized that someone had edited another person's answer so that it is now the same as my pre-existing answer.
Jordanka's answer to this question was edited by another user (as you can see, ...
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Unwanted edits to my question in ask Ubuntu
I recently asked a question on ask Ubuntu How to tell whether the snap or apt version is being used? which was well received and got two excellent answers and 11 upvotes. Then today, 3 days after it ...
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Edit conflicted with a subsequent edit [duplicate]
Sometimes I like editing questions by adding relevant tags, helping with formatting and overall question refining.
I don't usually get the edit rejected, but this time is was by Community♦, stating "...
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Can I view and cancel my pending edits?
I am still relatively new to this site, so I am wondering if it is possible for me to view my pending edits? If so, can I also cancel them? Whenever I try to look at pending edits I am told that my ...
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Editing: leave OP's original language [duplicate]
I was going to edit this post. My first thought was to delete the portion with the native language that OP posted. Googling it, it seems to be Norwegian. He provided a translation, that I was going to ...
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Why were my edit suggestions of fixing URL rejected?
I recently suggested a very small edit to a post fixing outdated URLs which were rejected 2 times with the same reason.
The rejection notice states:
Rejected 3 hours ago:
Kevin Bowen reviewed ...
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Standards for editing
I've being an active member of AskUbuntu and Unix & Linux for some time now. As such, I often edit Q&As. But I'm lost in some aspects and details of specific editing standards.
This post and ...
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Why do we used byte instead of octet as data size unit?
I would like to understand why we seem to prefer to use the byte unit instead of octet unit (because I used more commonly the octet unit at work, at home, ...).
What are the reasons for describing ...
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Editing posts: number of edits vs reputation
I'm still below the reputation to edit posts without them needed to be peer reviewed.
Suppose that I have 1000 approved edits.
Then comes along a user with enough reputation to edit posts without ...
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What is the logic behind editors losing reputation when a question is removed?
Before marking this as a duplicate of this related question, take into account that my question is about the reason why this happens, not the cause of it, which is what the answer to that question ...
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Should tags be edited out from a question if they appear irrelevant?
See Off Wi-Fi LED in Ubuntu for an example:
While it's ideally better to ask posters if, in this case, lubuntu and syslinux are indeed relevant to the question, suppose posters doesn't respond or, ...
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Made two edits within two minutes, but they weren't merged [duplicate]
I'm used to editing then noticing something small I missed and quickly editing again. Normally the second edit is merged with the first as long as it's within a grace period of 5 minutes, but I just ...
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Is there an easy way to include images from https://imgur.com?
Sometimes, posters provide links to https://imgur.com rather than to https://i.stack.imgur.com.
Then, if I want to include the image in the poster's question, I first have to open the https://imgur....
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Shortcut for adding quotes causes program to quit
While editing a long answer with a large block of text to quote, I held my mouse over the button for quoting, and noted that the shortcut to add quotes is Ctrl+Q.
The use of 'Q' makes sense, but it ...
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Editing race condition?
OP and I both edited this question at the exact same second. My revision is shown, but the revision history says OP's is the most recent.
I think this is a bug, since the most recent revision should ...
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Will I still get +2 for editing questions and answers after I reach 2000 reputation?
I have been active on Ubuntu for one year...
I am about to achieve 2000 reputation.
At the moment, with reputation 1658, all my edits are peer reviewed and once they are accepted, I am getting a ...
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Should abbreviations and acronyms be discouraged?
Sometimes, a question is not clear simply because it contains an abbreviation or acronym that a reader doesn't understand. I wonder if the instructions should encourage the definition of these things ...
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Reputation points and badges not incremented
My reputation points and badges suddenly stopped increasing on Ask Ubuntu...
I have done some reviews today and I was also supposed to be awarded a gold badge for editing 500 posts. This started ...
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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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