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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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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20 most viewed questions that need answers (Updated 12 Apr 2024)
Some of these questions do have answers, but these answers have negative votes. Only questions with upvotes will be removed from the list. In addition, this list has new questions sprinkled throughout!...
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absurd edit war
The question and its edit war
So this edit war happened. Here's a quick recap:
A poster asked a very clear question, two different ways.
A user edited the question to eliminate the second phrasing.
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How to handle this Li Zhi guy?
Most who have spent a considerable amount of time on Chem.SE this past year knows Li Zhi.
visits on a biweekly or monthly basis: Li Zhi, et al, et al, et al, et al, et al, et al ...
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What are some basic guidelines for good edits on Chem.SE?
I came across a post on the main site just now that I think could use some changes. I found the editing help page in the Help Center, but its write-up is pretty cursory and high-level.
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Houston, we have a "Problem" in question titles
So we are all familiar with the drill, given through the following:
I question the use of "question" in question titles
Help make help questions have more helpful titles
There are ...
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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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When a low quality question turns into a fascinating tutoring dialog
A new contributor asked a question, Mechanism of ring formation of an epoxide under acidic aqueous conditions. It has "homework" written all over it. The original title ("did not understand the ...
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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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Buzzwords in question titles - season 4 & 5 - experiments and exercises
I was looking for a pun in the question title, but was unable to find one. So instead let us remember the previous seasons:
I question the use of "question" in question titles (search here)
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I question the use of "question" in question titles
The search:
https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3Aquestion
brings up some 63 odd questions. Some of them are closed, some are actually pertaining to specific questions on particular ...
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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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How appropriate it is to improve typography of quoted text from the third-party source?
Often there is a quoted question (e.g. a block quote with >) from the textbook with certain typographic flaws which I would edit without any doubts, among which ...
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Are questions being excessively edited?
Someone asks a perfectly reasonably question about aluminum hydroxide, then someone comes along and deletes the word "hydroxide" from the title to make the question sound stupid:
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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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