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Should this question be split into 5 separate questions?
I found What are the steps to deploy OpenStack in a VM using juju?.
I saw comments on the question earlier that look like the person asking this is really trying to find the answer. It appears he ...
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Why comment "This is an English only site"? [duplicate]
On occasion people post questions in a language other than English and within 5 minutes there are multiple comments informing them that this is an English only site.
Any user on the site is allowed ...
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Badge hunters: When editing post does not improve them
Few minutes after I posted a question it was edited twice ... but the edits were not constructive in any way:
"Kubuntu Quantal" was changed to "Kubuntu 12.10"
"doing fine" was changed to "working ...
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How important is accuracy?
With regard to making small edits would an inaccuracy justify a minor edit?.
The question I refer to is found here and the suggested edit I made can be found Review/Suggested Edits.
A new user who can ...
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Meta editing-help should mention "paragraph breaks"
If I don't overlook something obvious meta.askubuntu.com/editing-help does not mention paragraph breaks at all. Neither
how they are considered useful instead of wasting space nor
how one creates ...
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Should posts be edited to have readable links?
When reading, i find it infuriating to see links posted http://www.example.com/ rather than Example.
Should questions and answers be edited to make links more readable, or is this not really seen as ...
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A call to uphold accessibility by not shortening links to "here"
As far as I see there has been some discussion about the shortening of links. While keeping the complete URL visible in the post can clearly be distracting (especially when used inline), I want to ...
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When should one answer their own question rather than build on what is already there?
Let me put this forward with an example...
I was stuck on an SSH issue on my Ubuntu server. I then got a few comments from one user and an answer from another.
I thought that the answer gave me ...
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When correcting a vital typo via edit, how to bypass 6-character limit on edits [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make small but important edits?
Say that you have the prototype scenario in Why the minimum 6 characters limit on edits: someone has written rm -rf / foo instead of rm -...
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Is it selfish or ridiculous to rewrite a question towards your answer?
Let's assume the OP asks something regarding an issue or a plain question without any suggestion towards a solution to how.
E.g. revision 1 of this example question:
Add repositories to synaptic
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Is it ludicrous to start posting an answer "please wait, I'm writing..."?
See the first revision of this answer, quoting completely:
I'm not really sure if you can do it in a terminal, but with my iMac I used tabbing instead.
(please wait, I'm writing the post...)
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How important is it to edit out unnecessary criticism or praise?
Occasionally, there are legitimate questions asked but these maybe embellished with a lot of personal detail more suited to a blog, such as unnecessary criticism of the software in question. By "...
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Other users can edit my questions?
I'm pretty new to Ubuntu, and to these forums and one thing that I have found to be a bit disturbing is that other people (including myself which is more oddness) can edit other peoples questions.
Is ...
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Warnings and meta information in question
Referring to this question: How to enable root login? (and this edit of that question).
There is an added remark in this question which doesn't seem to belong in the the body of a question:
Mod ...
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How much markup is tolerated?
Recently we see edit suggestions that mainly format text with a lot of markup that to my opinion do not always increase but sometimes reduce the clarity of a post.
People do have a different view on ...
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Editing an answer (or question) can make it get more upvotes. Shouldn't the editor also get credit for these later upvotes?
Editing can substantially change an answer or question. These changes, if accepted, may increase the value of the answer/question and the number the up-votes it gets. These should be reflected in the ...
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How do we handle edits that seem to intentionally add inflammatory language?
The question in question is: What is zeitgeist used for?
Check the edit history for details, but essentially:
Question asked likening Ubuntu using Zeitgeist to God-lessness.
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Should one edit answer to own question?
Is it good practice to edit answer to ones own question?
Suppose some one gives a good answer to an OP's question and the OP edits that answer. Is it considered a good practice?
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Should a second, short edit be awarded with reputation points?
See this answer.
I edited an answer. This edit was accepted, and I was granted 2 reputation points. Thirty minutes later, I realized that I made a small mistake. So I re-edited the question. This ...
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Giving Credit for an Edit
Someone did a really nice job enhancing one of my answers and I have a simple question. Is there any way I can transfer rep as a thank you? Do I have any other options to give him credit? I,m not ...
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Are the criteria for peer-reviewed edits and "2000 rep" edits the same?
I've used the site for a relatively small time.
I just edited an answer, and it was rejected on grounds of being too trivial. I am just wondering if this triviality bar "moves" as the cost of an edit ...
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Should re-tagging really be considered as edit?
I have seen recently that, When I re-tag a question, It is considered as edit. Then I can even reverse my vote on that question. I have a feeling that, It should not be considered as edit since, The ...
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Best way to update old answers when links have changed?
tl;dr : I commented on an old answer to show corrected links. Is there a better way?
This has recently come up for me because of the accepted answer for this question:
Is there a way to autodetect ...
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HTML comments in posts
IS it acceptable to use HTML comments(<!--TEXT--!>) in posts as signals that can be seen by other editors in order to clarify info to future editors, but things that should not be shown on the post ...
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Line breaks in markdown
I have been seeing new users who copy/paste code or information into posts not add extra newlines(or even type without extra newlines) and make posts hard to read, wasting the time of a moderator or ...
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Is it OK to post, and how should we deal with, non-English (or partly non-English) answers intended for translation? [duplicate]
Questions in languages other than English, or which contain non-English text and translated text, have been discussed before on meta.
But what about answers that are written in other languages? How ...
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Should really good/detailed "me too" answers have their content merged into the question?
Usually "me too" answers don't contribute much to working on the problem, but sometimes they do, as when they present details that are subtly different than (or more detailed than) what is provided by ...
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Should I edit my Answer to this question?
Yesterday I answered this question.
Today I noticed the question has been edited and now my answer only makes partial sense.
Should I edit it accordingly?
Secondly, if it was a decision by a ...
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How do I answer my Own Question?
Tonight I successfully resolved my own question. after getting into some difficulties. The resolution in the end was simple and came straight from the Ubuntu Community Documentation.
The reason why ...
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How has the new review view improved our editing?
The SO blog mentions the new review interface for people who are keen to improve questions. It's pretty awesome, it's automating things I've been doing by hand, so kudos there.
Review early, review ...
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Adding a tag is a minor edit?
I edited (or rather, suggested an edit) on a question about Chuck montages on Planet Ubuntu, to add the tag 'planet-ubuntu'. It was rejected with the following reason:
This edit is too minor; ...
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Is there a preferred convention as to how key sequences are noted?
Is there an unwritten convention that is considered more appropriate than others in reference to key sequence notation when replying to questions? Specifically, which is considered more appropriate?
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Don't allow editing posts that are currently being edited
Title says it all. Please consider adding a mechanism that blocks other users from starting an edit on a post if someone's already editing it.
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Should we modify questions to remove incorrect terminology?
There are lots of questions, especially about Unity that use incorrect terminology. For example, calling the launcher a dock. Should we edit these questions to use the proper terminology?
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I don't think people are getting the edit thing.
Here's an example of where I start to read a question, then get to the end and the person adds a bunch of edits that just end up confusing me instead of fixing the original question:
Handle Doc/Docx ...
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Is it possible to "over edit"?
Hi!
Since it's beta I want to make sure we have high quality questions and answers. As a result I've been doing some editing, but a bunch of it things like capitalization, spelling, formatting, etc. ...
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Title editing for googleability
I've been editing the titles to make more sense, for example "How do I do foo on Ubuntu" to "How do I do foo?" since we already know you'll be on Ubuntu (unless you specify otherwise). I've also been ...
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