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Let's agree on some commonly accepted formatting guidelines
As pointed out by Mark, there is a related question here:
Style guide for questions and answers
Since I went over 2k rep, I liked starting to work on suggested edits and improving formatting in ...
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What should be edited out of the questions/anwers/posts in general?
Ok, everybody knows that the principle of the SE sites:
All contributions are licensed under Creative Commons, and this site is collaboratively edited, like Wikipedia. If you see something that ...
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Why the minimum 6 characters limit on edits
I have found an answer with a dangerous mistake in chmod parameters. I did an edit suggestion(since I'm not privileged enough) but I was forced to change at least 6 characters for the system to accept ...
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What to do about good suggested edits with very bad summaries?
In review, I've seen a number of edits that were good ...except for the edit summaries.
Bad summaries are most often something like, "Improved question." This is a bad summary because any editor ...
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Should I edit posts to improve clarity?
When someone has asked a question using bad grammar or bad formatting, I find it difficult to read. So, the natural response? Clean it up. However, I'm realising that I make these edits fairly ...
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When is an edit too minor?
I see a decent number of edits in the queue that feel like someone is trying to get rep rather than trying to improve the site. Some examples:
https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/223751 -- ...
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Why do people edit in (usually pointless) bold and italics to questions?
I'm not pointing about any users, but there are a few I know that like bolding things in questions. Is there a specific reason to do this?
Readability is the largest reason I have heard. However, I ...
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Why was my suggested edit rejected?
For some reason, the questioner elected to take screenshots of the terminal, instead of copying and pasting. This means that (a) the question is slower to load, (b) the question is inaccessible to ...
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What to do with "half-hearted" edit suggestions?
I noticed there are many edit suggestions which fix a handful of issues with the post, e.g. some typos & capitalisations, spelling & grammar issues, line breaks etc., but leaves out many more. ...
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Can we increase the capacity of our Suggested Edits queue?
Lately a few folks have mentioned that they were unable to suggest edits because the queue itself was full. Apparently, the Suggested Edits queue is only allowed to contain 40 items.
That seems low ...
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Should I approve these small edits in the review queue?
I was in the suggested-edits queue and noticed a single user making a large amount of small edits. Things like spelling and grammar (one or two word edits) but also bits of code and keyboard key icons ...
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Is it acceptable for users to only gain reputation through a plethora of tiny edits?
To what extent is it acceptable for a user to only gain reputation through minor edits? This is a question somewhat in reply to: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/3946/is-it-acceptable-to-make-small-...
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Low quality edits are being robo-reviewed on Ask Ubuntu
I had an edit proposed on one of my questions, and since it did not offer much in the way of improvement, I rejected it. It encouraged me to explore the editor's edit history, where I found a mix of ...
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Offensive comment as Post edit: A way to escape with Untracked crime
This is first time to see such case on the edits review queue. A 1'rep user wrote an offensive comment as an edit of a different user answer (as it could be a question).
Well, I could reject it for ...
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Is my approach to fixing plagiarized tag wikis a good one?
I've been fixing tag wiki plagiarism lately. Recently I've been getting a lot of "reject" reviews (though only a very small number of actual rejections--accepts are still largely cancelling ...
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Why was this suggested edit submitted by an anonymous user rejected?
This edit was rejected by 2 users and approved by one, I was going to approve it but got the message that it had already been rejected. It sounded like the OP submitted the edit and it didn't change ...
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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 ...
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How to stop users from serial editing that is worth rejection?
For last few days I have seen few users editing posts in a serial way. I'll be straightforward here, These edits are surely an attempt to gain reputation.
I can say so based on
A custom, fixed edit ...
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What can I do about unwelcome edits?
Another user is repeatedly making edits to some of my posts.
The edits are not outright vandalism or spam, it is more about changing the style of writing to suit a better fit with their own ...
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