Questions tagged [suggested-edits]
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Review queues / Suggested Edits: Differences in set of possible actions
When reviewing some post as part of the Suggested Edits queue, I, most generally, get 4 choices (Approve / Improve edit / Reject and edit / Reject).
I, sometimes, albeit not often, get only 2 choices ...
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Is it noise to ask "Could anybody help me?"
I proposed this edit suggestion (link to Q/A) and removed the trailing question "Could anybody help me?" as I thought it improved the quality of the question a bit.
I did find this guidance ...
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Mass editing to change generic example URLs
Recently, a user started to submit a series of edit suggestions that change the TLD .com to .example in generic URLs used in console command examples (see e.g. this edit suggestion). In many cases, ...
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Unintuitive behavior of "Suggested Edits" review queue
Today, I found an edit suggestion in my review queue where the question that was to be edited had already been deleted. It looks like a moot point to keep such items in the review queue.
Is this a bug,...
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Reconsider "no improvement whatsoever" rejection
One of the canned messages to reject a suggested edit is no improvement whatsoever:
This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read,
easier to find, more accurate or more accessible....
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What’s the course of action when you think someone is being unjust?
Over the last few days a user (G-Man) is rejecting some of my edits. Obviously, I have nothing against him (you can’t always agree with everyone) and I only wish to understand why and move on.
First ...
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"Suggestion should be comment", but it really shouldn't
I made a suggested edit on a recent answer.
The author of the answer provided a nice solution to the question, but it looks like he didn't have the time to debug it, so his script ended up with some ...
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How did this edit got around the minimum 6 character limit?
I'm referring to this edit: I understand that voilà is only 5 characters long. Or does à count as two characters? Or do removed characters count towards the limit?
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Reviewing edits
I've noticed a some edits in the review queue that I'm not sure on the best action, so I'm asking for guidance.
In general these edits are on answers and they typically add information... but it's ...
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Rename adb to android-adb
Since this is about UNIX, I would expect that the tag adb refers to the advanced debugger written by Stephen Bourne in the mid 1970 as the standard debugger for UNIX.
This tag currently however is ...
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Rejected question edit
As the code on this post is really compact and hard to read, I made an edit to improve it.
However, the author rejected it because this "deviates from the original intent of the post".
I do not agree, ...
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What do I do when a user edits their question with another account
For E.G in this question, the user is trying to edit his/her question with another account that has the same name.
Should this edit be Approved or Rejected?
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edit for formatting gone
I made an edit in this Question for formatting. But now I see it is gone.
Did I something wrong?
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Spaces should be counted for the 6 character edit limit
You know the message
Edits must be at least 6 characters
Though I understand the reason for that and read discussions like this, it's even more annoying for questions with wrong or missing ...
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Clarification on rejected edit
I proposed an edit to an answer, and it was rejected. The reason given was: "This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a ...
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