Questions tagged [editing]
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Should we edit plagiarism or delete it?
What sparked this is a Psychology & Neuroscience answer which is purely a cut and paste answer from Psychology Today, I flagged to the moderators for further action.
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If restructuring question's body can set a new expectation on the readers, and thus making it clearer to be on-topic, should this be done?
In this example question: Cognitively, where does spiritual feeling come from?, the OP already states his expectation at the end:
I ask this question to understand how people like OSHO and ...
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Should I replace layman terms in my question if more scientific terms were pointed out in an answer?
I'm specifically asking about this question, but general advice is as always welcomed.
As pointed out in Fizz answer, what I refer to as "external factor" is called in the field "confounders", and my ...
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Please help me generalize this question! :)
Original question: How does a near decade of non-treatment affect what a doctor prescribes?
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How for example to generalize? Basically someone gets diagnosed as a child and is recommended ...
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How to edit the bounty description?
I added a bounty to the following question: Has anyone formally tested Josh Pellicer's theory on human sexual behavior?, however I made a typo in the bounty description. How does the original bounty ...
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Edits that change the question at issue
I'm new to approving edits, so I'm interested in how other edit-approvers handle situations like this. This question (which is, IMO, not a good one as it stands) has a suggested edit which, while it ...
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General strategies for converting self-help into a useful general question for this site
Problems with self-help questions: As far as I can tell, there are two main problems with self-help questions.
There are concerns about providing clinical advice where someone should be seeking the ...
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Edit count dropped suddenly
I had roughly 250 edits (which included tag wikis) listed as of last week. I'm not sure when the number changed, but it dropped to 104 suddenly.
Was this a recent change? Are tag wiki edits not ...
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When should I edit a post?
While we inherit most of our editing conventions from the Stack Exchange (SE) network. I feel it is important to rephrase them here, and possible specify some extra guidelines specific to our site.
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