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Is it appropriate to merge comments back into the original question?
Consider this question. The question as originally posted was rather unspecific and ambigious, but the poster then clarified his intention in a comment.
From what I read here and on other ...
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Is there a point to editing a question that should be moved to another SE site?
Sometimes I come across questions that really belong on another Stack Exchange site (usually Stack Overflow) that also have serious formatting, spelling and / or grammatical errors.
Is there a ...
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Is it okay to point readers to the edit history of an answer for old, (mostly) out-of-date information?
Background: For the last year or so, new features for Windows Subsystem for Linux (currently my primary area of expertise here) have been limited to Windows 11. With a recent release of WSL last week,...
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Placing a user's comment in their own post [duplicate]
I can't really think of a specific title for this since it's only just grown on me and I can't find anywhere else so rename if needed, and sorry in advance.
So I was on this post I messed up my PC, ...
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Answering a question you previously voted to close
This question was recently posted, asking very ambiguously about the Windows 7 SP1 RC. I voted to close it as "not a real question", since it was just asking for comments on whether anybody had tried ...
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Is the question's last activity relevant for editing, or accepting suggested edits?
Is the last activity date of a topic relevant in deciding whether a given change makes the relevance threshold when editing, or deciding on a suggested edit?
Are smaller, less important edits fine ...
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Is there an "Approve" option on SU for edits made to my input?
I have had a few edits done on some of my posts and that's fine, it has helped to fit in the SU site. But while on another StackExchange site, any edits give me the ability to Approve them. Is this ...
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Bizarre rejection of edit on case pressure
I made a correction to a post Does liquid cooling mean I no longer need to dust my machine? but it was rejected.
Reject reason A (by Dave Becker): "This edit deviates from the original intent of the ...
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Style edits - inline formatting versus blockquote formatting (`` vs 4 spaces)
Someone keeps going through various questions and answers making style edits.
One of them is here. I do not understand the significance nor reasoning for changing a code sample to something with four ...
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Guidance: editing question to reveal intent by removing author's obvious understanding, (or any reader's understanding)
I had my edits rejected, which to me at least, clearly showed the questioner's intent at: https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/389619
The edits were rejected with the boilerplate, "This ...
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Claim edit done while logged out
I edited this answer: https://superuser.com/a/435420/135459 but didn't realize I was logged out. Can / should I do anything to mark that edit as mine? Since it was entered as an unregistered user, it'...
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Editing OS-specific questions or answers if the question or answer will also apply to another OS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?
I recently found out that this question - How print multiple independent pages in one ...
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What in the world is a "code block"?
I'm trying to edit an answer I wrote a while back to correct an important item.
When I select "Save Edits", it gives me an error with the following:
"Oops! Your edit couldn't be submitted because:
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Why are there large number of high-view questions on the front page? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do we care about edit flooding? Should we be doing anything?
I refreshed my SU page and it went PINK.
As I count, there are 15 questions on the main SU view with nK views. ...
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Are welcome messages in answers acceptable?
I saw this answer and am not sure if the “Welcome to SuperUser.” at the beginning should be removed. It seems out of place to me…and aren't new users shown or emailed a welcome page or something ...
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