Questions tagged [editing]
For discussions/ support about editing questions and answers. Common guidelines, best practices, and frequent mistakes may be discussed with this tag. Disagreements between editors are also within the scope.
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Question & answer edits to improve searchability
I've been improving questions mainly to improve the site's placement in search engines OR to improve the likelihood that a question would be clicked (more traffic.)
I've been doing:
Cleanup for ...
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When editing posts that are consistently or overwhelmingly written in one flavour of English, please do not change the flavour
I was rather unhappy with an edit to a post of mine (which I immediately rolled back as soon as I saw it). While one may debate about whether mannonic acid or mannuronic acid is formed in an oxidation ...
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Is it a bad idea to have an edit only be the addition of the homework tag?
Often when cruising the latest questions or working through the review queue, I'll make an edit that only adds homework.
I see two problems, the first very minor, the second potentially insidious.
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I have a doubt about "doubt" in doubt titles
From the depth of the stack exchange network I bring to you the newest season (7) of our community effort against buzzwords in question titles. The word of the season this time is doubt.
In Indian ...
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Editing questions whose OP is not responding
What should be done to correct a question if OP is not responding.
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Comparing acidities of substituted and aromatic carboxylic acids
The OP (I think by mistake) wrote
Electron ...
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Need help with an edit
In this question I proposed an edit, then found I had made a typo (wanted sustituted, got dybstituted). Can't correct because I am stuck in peer review, and if I have to re-edit I am back in peer ...
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Time limit editing comments
Why is there a five-minute time limit editing comments? I found typos I wanted to correct in a comment I had posted, but it was too late, and I was forced to delete and repost.
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Allow small edits
For the upcoming MathJax/mhchem update, I'd like to make sure that old chemistry.SE posts do not break. I downloaded 12,000 unique usages of \ce and I have been ...
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Borderline self-promotional edit
Today I received an edit suggestion on this answer of mine.
The answer contains the following:
Probably the ultimate non-toxic solution [for a high density brine] would be a cesium polytungstate ...
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Formatting Sandbox II: please *don't* test stuff here [duplicate]
This thread has been retired due to the large number of posts. The newest sandbox can be found here:
Formatting Sandbox III: please test stuff here
Spoiler warning: Be aware that this page ...
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LaTeX in titles [duplicate]
Recently I edited a question adding LaTeX formatting for chemical formulas. I edited the both the text and the title, and this edit were accepted by peer-review. After some time, I noticed that ...
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Hidden points of editing you probably didn't know
Making a good edit is hard. On Chem.SE, we (would/should/could) care about the finest points of formatting. There are basic points of editing many editors know about: Put some fancy MathJax/ $\mathrm\...
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Should I have accepted a trivial add-homework-tag edit on this old question?
I just rejected a suggested edit on this question, where someone had proposed adding homework but making no other changes. Since the question was two and a half years old, I rejected the edit with ...
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Editing/presentation of chemical structures (to chemdraw or not to chemdraw)
Preface: feel free to close this/point me in the direction of the answer if it has already been discussed here. A quick search of Meta didn't bring anything up (searched ChemDraw and organic ...
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I am asking about chemistry, you know, that's why I put it in the title
Previously on 'Never mind the Buzzwords':
I question the use of "question" in question titles (search here)
Help make help questions have more helpful titles (search here)
Houston, we have ...
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