Editing is a core, fundamental Stack Exchange value -- we allow editing by registered and unregistered users (if peer reviewed).
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Editing to remove a “Thank you” in a post
What should be done when a (for example, brand-new) user has a question which ends with,
"Thank you."
I ask because in the "edit suggestions" review queue today there was an edit which removed such ...
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Wrong timing for comment editing blocking?
I just wanted to edit a comment of mine that was shown as "3 min ago". When I hit the button to commit the edit, I was told that editing is only possible for 5 minutes. OK, so I took too long to edit? ...
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What to do if a suggested edit is “bad”, but gets accepted?
I have occasionally come across suggested edits which I believe should have been rejected but were accepted (and I have voted to reject them, but was outnumbered - how dare they disagree with me!). ...
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Solve/compute/evaluate: when should we use these verbs?
Today, I've edited the question in this thread, and apparently I did wrong. The question was asking to "solve an (indefinite) integral", which I replaced by "compute an (indefinite) integral". ...
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Editing long questions in stages
I have tried several times now to start on editing a long question that needs serious reformatting. But halfway through someone else edits the question and I can't (or don't feel I shouldn't) finish ...
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Apply the homework tag during routine editing? [duplicate]
When editing a new question, for grammar, punctuation, clarity, formulas, etc., is it appropriate to add the homework tag if your intuition is strong that it is homework?
Please don't knee-jerk brand ...
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Retitling Questions: a modest proposal
I'd like to suggest that after a Question receives an Accepted Answer, some consideration be given to revising the title (if appropriate) to reflect what the real issue turned out to be.
It seems to ...
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user on an editing spree
One of us has edited over 50 old questions in the last 50 minutes, mostly just retagging them. Is there any way to stop this? [note --- I have flagged one of the questions for moderator attention, and ...
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How much is it acceptable to partially answer a post within an edit of that post?
I have encountered a situation in which the OP asked a relatively simple question about manipulating logarithms. The OP was clearly not practiced in the subject, and asked a question involving the ...
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Defacement/Censorship of peoples answers
yesterday the following edit was made http://math.stackexchange.com/posts/33730/revisions which deletes content from an (very old) answer. Taking liberty to edit and perform such censorship/deletion ...
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Editing large posts on android tablet doesn't allow full scroll down
I tried to edit a larger post with my tablet. After scrolling down some lines it stopped and didn't get show the last ones.
It also doesn't show the usual scroll down handle.
I'm using a catnova ...
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How to edit a long post?
Sometimes I spend around 5 minutes editing some post, correcting TeX commands, etc. But when I submit my edit I discover that somebody already did another one.
But sometimes his edit is not so ...
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When a user (completely) changes their answer via edit
Background story/motivation for question:
I recently saw an answer that presented an incorrect way of solving a problem. (Simple algebra error, $\sqrt{x^2 + y^2} \not = x + y$.)
I let the author ...
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bug not showing what has been changed when reviewing edits
Here is what I get when I want to review the most recent item on "review edits":
Somehow the right hand site is missing. Question was by Haruboy15, edit by Learner. Any idea what is happening?
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Is there any etiquette to be observed when editing a question or an answer?
I am asking this because there were a few occasions when I felt an urgent need to edit a person's solution that had been written rather poorly (e.g. using non-standard abbreviations or committing ...
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Edits that Substantially Extend Answers
I am seeing a great deal of suggested edits that extend non-CW answers in a significant way. I believe they are good faith attempts to "improve" an answer by filling in details, but the resulting ...
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Editing - ordered list with letters.
I just edited: Let $f$ be a non-constant entire function such that $\left \lvert f(z) \right\lvert=1$ for every $z$ with $\left \lvert z \right\lvert=1$.
In the question there is a list of options ...
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Edits by Community ♦
As a 10K user, I can approve/disapprove edits by low-reputation users. BUT: Why am I being asked to approve edits done by Community ♦ ... Presumably, despite having only reputation 1, it can put in ...
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pending approvals
A couple of times recently, I approved edits and found that they still need approval from one other person. During the interval, I can't do any other edits to the posting!
When does an edit have to ...
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Editing now completely blocked while an edit is pending
In tags should be editable despite pending edit to text and vice versa, I noted that it was bad that one was being forced to review edits in order to be able to edit posts with a pending edit; but at ...
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tags should be editable despite pending edit to text and vice versa
When an edit to a question is pending, it's impossible (for users with sufficiently high reputation) to edit it without dealing with the pending edit. I'm not sure I like that behaviour in general, ...
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Editing Binge Etiquette
What is the etiquette for extremely minor edits that bump dead threads by no longer active users? A related meta question.
Recently someone has been on a binge of such editing. Most of the edits are ...
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Questions about edit posts and recent tags.
I have two questions. 1) Why I cannot edit the posts of the other users and 2) Why I cannot view all the post from Recent Tags?-It shows me :
"You are on the Featured tab.
There are no questions with ...
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How much bumping is too much?
Quite often some old questions are bumped for various reasons.
They are edited to correct minor typos, punctuation, adding links, adding a more informative title etc.
They are retagged - e.g. for ...
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I need your advice.
I need some good advice. There is one math.problem which I asked here. It is my second attempt. I have some new ideas and new results, but question is already big enough. I don't want to delete ...
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Undo edits just suggested
Is there a way to undo an edit that one has suggested before it has been reviewed? I realized that my edit on this answer was wrong.
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Treatment of multiple answers by same user to same question
We have a generally accepted and established norm on editing the content of questions, as addressed in this answer to the question Editing the content of questions and in this answer to the question ...
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Reacting against edits
I just want to mention it because it's not the first time that this weird thing happened to me. Sometimes when I edit a question or answer, I see the poster makes minor edits to remove my name. I got ...
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Sandbox for drafts of long, complex answers
This sandbox is intended for saving drafts of long, complex answers, especially answers whose composition takes a long time. It serves to localize to one thread the front-page "bumps" caused by edits ...
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How much (self) editing is too much?
(N.B. not to be confused with this question)
We are all aware of editing being a core value of the part-Wiki nature of the Stack Exchange websites.
We are also all aware of the website providing a ...
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Radical editing?
I recently answered this question about how the volume of a tetrahedron depends on the surface areas of the faces. I like the content of this question a lot, but unfortunately the original wording ...
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Is the asker notified when an answer to their question is edited? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Lack of notification
If I edit my answer to a question to add substantially new information, will the user who posted the original question be notified of it ...
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Delete vs. Edit etiquette
If an error is found in my answer, is it appropriate to delete the answer and let someone else more knowledgeable answer?
Or is should I attempt to correct my solution through edits?
What is the ...
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Edits and Community Wikis
How many times can I edit a question/answer before it automatically gets turned into a community wiki?
Thanks
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Who is going to edit the question next?
Looking at the revisions of this question made me think some unnecessary edits were done. Clearly, the third edit is completely unnecessary. Also, too much edits has changed the problem. Please be ...
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Why restrict my ability to change my vote once I have editing priveleges?
Yesterday I intended to upvote an answer, but accidentally downvoted. I did not notice this and did not change it within the five-minute window for changing votes. Later that day I noticed a drop on 1 ...
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Don't throw the baby out with the bath water when rejecting suggested edits.
Several hours ago I suggested eight edits to posts that I thought could use a little bit of improvement. A few hours later I came back to find that all eight of them had been rejected by the same ...
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helping people with TeX code
If I write \underset{x\in A}{\mathrm{sup}} in $\TeX$, it looks like this:
$$
\underset{x\in A}{\mathrm{sup}}
$$
If I write \sup_{x\in A}, it looks like this:
$$
\sup_{x\in A}
$$
The latter usage, ...
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Editing the content of questions
Suppose a user asks a question on the main site, and he makes several mistakes in his question. Then the editing crew shows up to fix those mistakes. So far so good. If he made typos, we fix them. If ...
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I do care about the format of the questions
My edit was rejected for this reason:
Let's wait until we find out what the symbols mean...
Which I failed to make sense of.
While the user who rejected the edit, made the same edit in the ...
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Fixing TeX markup
Every now and then, I see a question or an answer with incorrect TeX markup. Most commonly, I see cos instead of \cos, and so ...
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Unsolved Problem asked as a question in math.se
What are the guidelines? Will the moderators take action OR does someone have to flag it as "Known Unsolved Problem" or "Known Open Problem".
For instance question here was about a Diophantine ...
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About making small edits
I had a question regarding editing. Sometimes, a question looks ok in terms of its formatting but has a few math portions not embedded in math jax. Is it good or bad to be fixing this? To state an ...
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When you spot someone gaming for edit related badges
In every system which rewards points and badges people are bound to game it from time to time.
I see it like this:
There are games which have little to no negative effect (e.g. voting a lot of ...
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Community approved my suggested Edit
Clicking on Community, you'll find:
Hi, I'm not really a person.
I'm a background process that helps keep this site clean!
I do things like
Randomly poke old unanswered questions ...
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Multiple Edits should not end up in Multiple +2's
I realised, when editing a post a second time, I got an additional +2 rep. Does this make sense?
I think it's ok once. Is it possible to restrict it?
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2answers
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Who has got more reps, is first in the priority list
I edited a question before anyone else but as I'm a new contributor to the community, I got this:
You do not have edit privileges. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
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1answer
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Sweeping suggested edits where “Anonymous User” is probably the OP
I've recently come across a number of cases in reviewing where a suggested edit is made which would be too unilateral to approve of because it interferes with the original poster's implicit wishes - ...
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Latex preview when initially composing an answer
When one starts writing an answer, it is not possible to turn off the live preview of the answer. This makes it rather painful when composing long, latex-right answers. The only way around it is to ...
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Can the equation rendering delay be increased for editing posts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Feature request: user script or option to turn off instant MathJax rendering
I'm sitting on a very low-end machine here and typesetting a question with equations results ...
