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The "Reject and Edit" reason is not always accurate
When you review a suggested edit and select "Reject and Edit" the following reason gets displayed:
This edit did not correct critical issues with the post - view the revision history to see what ...
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Ask for a reason why the user is rejecting and editing [duplicate]
Currently, when a user rejects and edits a suggested edit, Community♦ rejects it with the following reason:
This edit did not correct critical issues with the post - view the revision history to ...
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Could the "makes no sense as an edit" option be reworded to not bite the newbies?
I just rejected a proposed edit from a low-rep SO user that added code where there was none. The proposed edit makes total sense as an answer, but the proposer didn't know that. However, I was not ...
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Edit reject reasons: replace "causes harm" with "other"
When reviewing edit suggestions, I often use the custom reject reason. This allows me to give the editor some personalized guidance, so that in their next edit they can do better.
For some reason, ...
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The edit rejection message for "no improvement whatsoever" STILL sounds too hostile
Last year, after complaints that it sounded too hostile, the suggested edit rejection reason for "no improvement whatsoever" was changed — to replace "fails to make" with "...
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New suggested edit Reject reason for missing potential changes
I'm suggesting a reject reason for when the changes a user suggests are ok but they missed other potential (and largely obvious) fixes in the same post.
This scenario is not catered for, happens ...
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Suggested edit review should show custom rejection reasons
Somewhat similar to Show other users' votes in suggested edit review, but rather more limited: when Rejecting an edit, not only the count of custom rejection reasons but the actual text of the ...
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Could we make it easier for reviewers of suggested edits to point out strategies for improving or participating more meaningfully?
I have recently learned that it is frequently a problem that people will find a tag that needs some cleanup and do the cleanup without making other edits to the post. If it is actually a common ...
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Could we make it easier for people to see *just* their rejected "suggested edits"?
Why is it so difficult to see rejected suggested edits? If there is a way to view just the rejected suggested edits or to sort by rejected vs. accepted, that would be really helpful.
I want to be ...
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Too minor but valid edit
As I understand, the reasons for discouraging too minor edits are that they can swamp the review queue, and block the post from actual improvement edits. Still, I often see edits that just change "i'm"...
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Exclude URLs from maximum length on rejection reasons
I just tried to reject a suggested edit with the following reason:
This is a valid tag inside a question title. See also Jon Skeet on writing the perfect question.
The text box stated that this ...
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Move wiki "excerpt/wiki not helpful" to top of suggested edit reject reasons list
Could we get these reasons moved to the top of the reject reasons list? They seem to be the most common ones I would use and they are buried and not even in the same place in the respective list.
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Change wording of "Excerpt/Wiki not helpful"
Oh look, someone made a bunch of tag wiki excerpts/wikis that don't follow guidelines. I'll just click this Wiki Not Helpful reason when rejecting them:
And the next one:
Wait what the f- the order ...
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Add a new reason to reject suggest edits: "This should be a comment"
I think it would be useful to have a reject reason "This should be a comment".
Whenever I see (minor) edits to code or some edit that challenges the opinion in the original post I select "other" and ...
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Change wording on "excerpt not helpful"/"wiki not helpful" in suggested edit rejection reasons
Can we change the wording of the description for "excerpt not helpful"/"wiki not helpful" in the rejection reason list for suggested edits from:
"This edit does not follow any of our tag wiki ...
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