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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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Should 'he' to 'they' edits be accepted?
First off, I am not interested in having an argument about the CoC changes regarding pronouns. Nor am I interested in debating mod resignations as a result of that. Those discussions should go ...
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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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What to do with <!-- language: bash --> edits?
Recently in the edit queue, there have been edits that only add <!-- language: bash --> to the post. These edits are made by the same user. And often 5-10 at a time.
Is the color highlighting of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to tell an editor they are doing something consistently wrong?
Occasionally someone edits a bunch of posts incorrectly in the same way. These edits seem to be made in good faith, but the editor's grammar/syntax/spelling is consistently incorrect. Perhaps this has ...
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Should the OP really approve/reject a suggested edit in one review?
So there was this edit I made, and it got rejected by the OP even though we NEED formatting! So should the OP really be able to reject like that? Maybe needs 2 people?
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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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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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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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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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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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Proposed edit rejected - new edition is almost the same and didn't solve some problems
I proposed an edit on this post. It was rejected with the reason
This edit did not correct critical issues with the post - view the revision history to see what should have been changed.
The new ...
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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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Suggested edits queue "Reject and Edit" reason
How come I can't give a reason when I select "Reject and Edit"?
I want to give a reason to the user to help them improve. Usually I end up selecting "Reject", going to the post link and separately ...
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Is it okay to rename questions when the title doesn't reflect what OP really wants to know?
I'm asking about the question How to delete the files of administrator by using guest session. According to my answer there and to the discussion under the other answer, I assume the problem is solved....
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What counts as a "controversial" edit?
In the Suggested Edits stats there is a "controversial" edits section. But after looking at these edits I'm not so sure what is so "controversial" about them and why the system identifies them as such....
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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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When suggesting edits, don't write something you are not doing like "improving formatting"
Apparently some users have abused the "improving formatting" comment for their suggested edits and use them for anything... ANYTHING, even if it's not improving formatting. I remember that when ...
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Should single tag edits be approved?
Title says it all.
I have seen 5+ of these exact edits by the same user, and I'm wondering whether they should be accepted.
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Why was this small but important edit rejected?
https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/777606
The answer contains three incorrect paths, based on my understanding and limited experience and on another's comment. I'm not sure how extensive ...
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What to do when an anonymous user insists they are the OP for an edit?
Some edits, such as those adding information about an OP's system, should only be made...
by the OP, or
at the OP's explicit request, or
by someone who is merely putting the information into the ...
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Receiving unwanted Suggested Edits on answers posted years ago
I am receiving "suggested edits" on years-old posted answers.
Is there a new effort or policy to clean up posts?
Or
Is Ask Ubuntu being infiltrated by bots or hackers?
My concern is twofold:
Am I ...
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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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Suggested edits on very poor questions.what to do?
While reviewing suggested edits, I come across bad posts(really bad posts that are worth deletion, like the dependency issue posts) that undergo desperate, sure-to-fail attempts of improvement by ...
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Way to see how a question actually looks?
In the review for suggested edits queue, there was this post:
https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/297636
Now the edit seems fine, but what are all the s doing there? I'm not that ...
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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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Should such minor question edits actually count and accepted as edits?
From time to time, I like editing questions and answers here and there that require some considerable formatting and overall question refining, so OP would actually have a good chance of someone ...
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Does this edit fail to improve the post?
Yet another question about edits as I work out the borders between an appropriate and inappropriate edit.
@Dan is one of the developers of OpenConnect, making him one of the better-suited people to ...
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What to do when a user asks a question editing an another question?
Today I was looking at the suggested edits and I found edit #70248.
The edit was made to a question about a graphics problem and consisted in the following text:
pls do tell me how to connect to ...
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Reviewing added information - does accuracy matter?
I sometimes get edits to review where the person making the edit has added in some details or sources missing from the original answer (or question, sometimes). But it may be about a subject that I ...
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The Suggested Edit quota is too low
Recently I have become able to start doing First Post reviews, but while I am doing so, I have to edit a lot of posts that are of low quality.
However, when I started my 6th edit, I repeatedly click ...
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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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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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Is this screenshot uncool?
I added a wallpaper screenshot to my answer to Architecture - 32-bit handling 64-bit instructions which was intended to illustrate the last sentence of the answer. Now I'm worried that I might have ...
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Edit proposed by anonymous user ?
This edit is in my review queue.
Note that it's "proposed by an anonymous user" - what does this mean?
I've already read this suggested dupe, and it didn't help me.
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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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Has rep required to edit questions been increased?
The other night I suggested several edits to remove the word "Ubuntu" from titles as was suggested in a tip here (editing-tips-and-tricks). Now, edit is faded out under questions for me and tells me "...
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Rejecting edits because they "Failed to correct critical issues with the post"
So I just made it past 2k rep, and I've been reviewing some edits.
Once, one of my suggested edits was rejected because it apparently
Failed to correct critical issues with the post
I found a ...
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Retagging untagged questions "too minor"?
Since when is retagging an untagged question "too minor"?
The community clearly thinks that retagging untagged questions is good (see links below), but still, half of my retags get rejected by being "...
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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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edit suggestions: problem with meaningless comments [duplicate]
I am in a dilemma:
There is one user who contributes (very) good edit suggestion but the comments are almost always the same: improved formatting, even if he did a lot more.
I do want to get that ...
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reviewers of reviewers need to be mindful as well
I do a lot of editing.
I sincerely seek the balance between being respectful to the post and its poster, and making the post readable and understandable. It sometimes takes a lot of time, if I doubt, ...
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Why were my Tag Wiki edit suggestions rejected (and is it acceptable to copy-paste the Tag Wikis from SO?
I had gone and tried to improve some Tag Wikis here on AU. Here are my suggested edits (all of these tags did not have an existing Wiki). All of these I wrote myself - they weren't copy-pasted from ...
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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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