I just suggested an edit to the question Extracting text using sed does not work as expected. After a few minutes I checked back and found that an edit had been committed to the question. It was my edit, with a few cosmetic/stylistic changes. (For example, I had used “…” quotes around strings that were also in back-ticks; OK, I accept that that’s non-standard. And indentation and a blockquote that I had added were gone.) But my name was nowhere to be seen, and I didn’t get my two points of reputation. Was this a correct edit review?
asked Jun 24, 2014 at 17:05
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Your suggested edit put words in the op's mouth.– mikeservCommented Jun 24, 2014 at 17:20
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So what? My suggested edit wasn’t rejected outright; the person who reviewed it kept (i.e., validated) the content of my edit, making only stylistic changes, keeping the Edit Summary unchanged, but denied me “credit”” for it.– Scott - Слава УкраїніCommented Jun 24, 2014 at 17:25
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this is a valid point, and is one i did not previously see. This has completely changed my own perspective on this question. Could you make any edit to this at all so that i might reverse my vote? I aplogize for not having seen it sooner.– mikeservCommented Jun 24, 2014 at 17:30
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Related: Is it typical for an edit to be hijacked and then attributed to someone else?– Scott - Слава УкраїніCommented Oct 29, 2014 at 0:04
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1If it happens only twice a year (and that's once a year each on two different sites), that probably doesn't qualify as "typical".– Scott - Слава УкраїніCommented Oct 29, 2014 at 0:39
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Scott - that's another well-made point.– mikeservCommented Oct 29, 2014 at 2:09
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Look at the differences between your suggestion and the improvement:
- Removed an excessive amount of whitespace before the input/output/commands
- Made the commands blocks instead of inline formatting, which they should be as they're on their own line.
- Removed the note from a quote block, as it doesn't really belong in one.
This ends up correcting about half of your changes. I would probably have left your edit marked helpful as I'm generous with such things, but I understand why the rejector rejected it.
