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Why isn't the reputation gained for editing a tag wiki refunded if the tag is burned?
I suggested a tag excerpt edit that got approved. But later, the tag was burned and the wiki "orphaned". Instead of getting a -2 in my reputation, the rep stayed and the link led to a 404 ...
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Copy question or answer source text when "Suggested edit queue is full" [duplicate]
For users below 2k reputation who need to copy a question or answer source text, the only option nowadays is to use the "edit" button and copy the source from the edit page. When the "...
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Can I cancel a 'pending edit' [duplicate]
I suggested edits on a few questions/answers and they are now pending. As the Stack Overflow site only allows 5 pending edits, I would like to know if it is possible to cancel any such edits in order ...
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How to revert an approved edit for answer
Consider this suggested edit:
https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4555066
Here the editor has made a factual error, albeit minor, but it adds nothing to original answer (which was ...
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Suggested edit system is causing grief, needs to be rethought
Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of complaints about users making suggested edits en masse whose quality was at least questionable.
Let an example of a low-quality edit be the ...
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Suggestion to revert to older revision got rejected as "too much change"
I wish to call the suggested edits review process to question.
Specifically I want the reviewers to be alerted when a suggested edit is reverting to an older version of the post, ideally with an ...
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Can there be more than one pending edit to a single post? [duplicate]
When there is a suggested edit for a post, we see something like this:
Since another edit can't be suggested, how exactly can there be more than one pending edit?
If the answer is, as I expect, "...
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Link "This Edit" text to "Suggested Edit" Link [duplicate]
I have noticed something like when I suggest edit. then always it shows this message
Thanks for your edit!
This edit will be visible only to you until it is peer reviewed.
and for status I have to ...
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How can I help with suggested edits? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why set the bar so high for viewing 'suggested edits' review tab?
This question was inspired by Do we need a Bat-Signal on Meta, calling in help when the edit queue is ...
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Suggested edit review is not helpful
As part of the mod tools, there is a tool to review and approve suggested edits. The "review suggested edits" page shows something like below, which is not of much help to review and approve the edit.
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Where's the summary of your own suggested edits?
Where can I find my pending/approved/rejected suggested edits? (a bit like the Flagging Summary page)
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Anonymous/Community User's suggested edits right is banned because of too many rejected edits?
When I tried to test a suggeseted edit on Meta as Anonymous, I got.
Too many of your edits were rejected, try again in 7 days.
So, Community User's edit rights are revoked due to too many edits by ...
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Can the wiki-edit reject algorithm be softened?
Inspired by the Redesigned Tags Page blog post, I edited a bunch of previously blank or terse tag wiki over at Photo-SE.
Maybe I was a little obsessive, but I wrote about 25, most of which were ...
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How can I cancel an edit I made on another user's question or answer?
Edits made by users who do not have edit privileges are placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.
E.g., I edited someone else's answer. but changed my mind. If I'd edited my own question/answer, ...
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Make rules regarding copying tag wiki content from other websites more explicit
Looking through the list of recently created tag wikis (10k only) and suggested tag wiki edits, one thing stands out - a lot of the content is copy and pasted directly from other sites on the internet....
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