Questions tagged [editing]
For questions about making edits on mainsite or Meta: how to do it, when to do it, best practices, policies, etc.
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Retroactively ensuring a question is a duplicate, good practice? [duplicate]
Is it above board to edit another persons question extensively, lets say by adding 755 characters to it - to ensure that another recently posted similar question which otherwise would not be ...
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Why can't I see edit history?
I just looked at this question (Moving a Gargantuan Object) and either am going mad because a few people have seen it talk about morkoths and towers, but it no longer says that and I can't see an edit ...
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For homebrew review, is it appropriate to add features of the homebrew that were meant to be a part of it but weren't written down to the question?
In my question Is this revision of the level 2 Transmutation Wizard feature balanced? [Version 2], I intended for "stone" to exclude glass, but I now realize that not everyone reading that ...
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Should an answer be rewritten completely if new external info becomes available?
My question was prompted by this answer where the rules were unclear at the time of answering. The complete answer was now replaced with recent info from errata. The question wasn't ever changed in a ...
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Is creating duplicate signpost questions wrong?
I created a new question as a signpost for an existing question, because the existing question was using language that made it hard to find (at least for me), then immediately closed it as a duplicate,...
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Fixing umbrella tag of mutants-and-masterminds
I recently noticed that mutants-and-masterminds was largely being used in conjunction with either the mutants-and-masterminds-2e or mutants-and-masterminds-3e tags, but not discussing the overarching ...
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Is it okay to heavily correct a question/answer that contains a lot of typos/grammar errors?
Sometimes one can find a question or an answer containing a lot of typos and/or grammar errors: is it ok to proceed in correcting them (at the best of one's knowledge) or is it better to leave a ...
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Should a closed question lock out users from undeleting (and/or editing) their existing answers?
Recently, I voted to keep a question open, believing that it was answerable and valid in its current form. I then answered the question, by posting a terse and incomplete answer, deleting it, and then ...
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Is it okay to post a non-answer and then delete it if I intend to come back later and write an actual answer?
I've observed a few cases of users posting a non-answer on a question and then deleting the answer, usually leaving a note in the answer text about how they will come back later and write an actual ...
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Bug when saving an edit: I made my post disappear
When saving an edit, I am asked if I want to abandon the edit:
Then, if I choose cancel, the post disappears:
It works on questions too:
This is on iOS Safari.
Meta.se report here: Editing a post ...
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Was this edit too substantial?
Our GM has us roll new initiative every round. Just how broad of a change is this?
The above question was edited from this state to this one. This can also be looked at on the revisions page. I am ...
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Is this suggested edit on a VtM 5e question about a combat sequence that ends after three turns appropriate?
The question Is my interpretation of Vampire The Masquerade 5th ed combat correct? focuses on a single combat sequence — and the rulings related to it. This suggested edit by another user ...
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Is it possible to search for edits with a certain content, specifically adding a tag?
In the spirit of good faith, here are my fears and weaknesses.
People mistake system-specific questions for rarely-encountered systems as either system-agnostic or dnd-5e questions about once every ...
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Should we refrain from tag-only edits to recent questions that also need substantial body edits?
Suppose we have a new question that needs substantial body edits and some tags. If I do not intend to do the substantial body edits immediately, should I refrain from adding the needed tags?
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What is the etiquette for adding supplemental information to a good answer?
On this question, a user provided an excellent mathematical derivation of a numerical question that had been asked and provide a plot of the results. I thought that a different form of plot was a ...
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