Questions tagged [edits]
For questions about the process of editing, how edits work, and other general inquiries about the edit system, use this tag.
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Why is editing a staged question so different from editing a posted question?
I tried to fix code formatting of this staged question https://stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/78740556.
I didn't manage to get the formatting right, because there is no preview, and the top bar ...
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What to do about a user who keeps editing all my questions and answers? [duplicate]
The same person has been editing many of my questions and answers for several months in what appears to be a targeted and unreasonable manner. Is there anything I can do about it?
Prevent WordPress....
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Duplicated answer after connection loss
I was editing my answer to this question when I lost my connection.
After restoring connection and submitting the update, I have got a new answer appearing like if I duplicated my answer instead of ...
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False-positive "Your post is mostly images."
I've tried to improve formatting and fixing a typo in this question: Adding more than one reviewer to a GitLab merge request
On save I got this error message:
Your post is mostly images. Add ...
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How do I keep people from editing my posts?
This is quite straightforward, but I cannot seem to find anyone else asking this: How do I keep people from making edits to the body of my posts?
While I somewhat see what Stack Overflow is going for ...
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Suddenly can't edit my own answer [duplicate]
I suddenly can't edit my own answer post. I get this error message:
Comment Reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment.
I tried some more specific messages and also tried to re-login ...
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Just today, every edit comment I try to make is "reserved for system use" [duplicate]
I'm trying to submit a basic edit, but no matter what I type, the website says "Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment."
I've never had problems with edit ...
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"Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment." when submitting an edit with an edit comment
When editing this question by replacing the supplied images of the formula with identical mathjax formulas I tried to supply a reason as shown in the image with "use mathjax instead of images&...
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Was the minimum character limit for questions increased to 300 recently?
I was trying to edit this question into shape.
Due to removing some junk text the body became shorter and I got this error message when trying to save:
Body must be at least 300 characters; you ...
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Edit button on old revision doesn't edit right revision
I was on staging ground. I checked revision history, and I would like to get the text from some specific revision (not the actual one). So I clicked on the button "Edit this revision", and ...
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Staging ground bug: editing post body does not work; edits silently discarded [duplicate]
I saw this post in the staging ground:
https://stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/78625597
After checking that it wasn't a dupe, I thought it could be a decent
question with some editing improvements, ...
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Editing a post and publishing simultaneously doesn't apply the edit to the published post
I edited https://stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/78620089, and then decided that after cleaning up some repetition it was decent enough to publish so selected "Approve and post on main site"...
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The question author in the Staging Ground can be affected by the reviewer lock, disallowing editing from them
When an SG item is in front of a reviewer, it applies an "In Review" lock to it, disallowing other reviewers from taking action on it, including editing. This is a good thing, as it tries to ...
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Staging Ground edits don't have a grace period
I just edited a Staging Ground question's tags, then I noticed some typos and fixed them too, then noticed a typo I missed and fixed it. Each time I clicked the edit button created a new revision, but ...
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Should the review be skipped automatically if one wants to edit but the queue is full and the reviewer does not have full-edit privileges?
I know that there are already some similar questions here regarding the "problem", but I have not been able to find a discussion about this "solution":
The answer to this question ...
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