Questions tagged [editing]
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Is it considered appropriate to edit multiple answers of another user into a single answer?
Sometimes, users post multiple answers to the same question. (Examples: Boot taking forever with a 106 JBOD attached. - WARNING: Device /dev/xxx not initialized in udev database even after waiting ...
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Editing: command tools format
When I'm going to edit a Q/A, often I find that command tools such as awk, grep, sed are not highlighted or formatted in any way, even from high rep users (which could be just that they missed it).
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Cannot change tags of a particular question
I have tried to add the bashrc and bash-profile tags to How to fix infinite bash loop (bashrc + bash_profile) when ssh-ing into an ec2 server? but after clicking "save tag edits" the tags ...
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Confirm or rollback this edit
Here I (and someone else) have approved an edit into the most upvoted answer, which was suggested by comment at 2017, but later I saw that this edit (--progress) exists already in this answer from ...
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Why was this edit rolled back?
A while ago I edited this answer to include a brief description of the link. As I understand it, answers that are just links aren't recommended as the link could break or the contents could change. I ...
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Completely changed answer: edit or new answer?
In a recent post I changed my answer completely, so I edited it.
But then I thought that, being a "new" answer, it should be a separate one, so I posted a new answer. (I just let the previous one ...
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My question wasn't specific enough, but got I got the right answer anyway. How should I proceed?
I have a question about my Unix & Linux Stack Exchange post: Interpret variables from read in string with shell script
The question how I asked it (I tried to break it down to the relevant point) ...
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Editing other people's posts to remove "thanks"
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Generally, if people abstained from doing edits that are just removing "thanks" and context phrasing (without doing any other improvements), that would be great. I ...
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Editing questions recently put on hold (don't do trivial edits on recently closed questions)
I've already mentioned this to a couple of editors in the /dev/chat chat, but I think it may be worth mentioning in a Meta post as well.
Please don't make trivial edits to questions that were ...
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tutorials/guidelines on posting
I'd like to have some link on tutorials on how to post on this site.
Whenever I post something containing code someone else (possibly moderator)
is re-editing and re-formatting my post. Where can I ...
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Jeff Schaller-Why do you put your picture up on every edit?
I see the posters picture goe up but why do we havew someone who merely edits posts finding it necessary to get his picture out front big noting himself?
Thats a bit overboard from a moderator
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Guidelines for what's acceptable in terms of editing
On Unix & Linux I stumbled upon an ancient question with recent activity. I was trying to figure out why that was. I looked through it and its answers and saw recent edits.
In the revision ...
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Wrong prompt when editing questions with disallowed tag
When editing a question with tag that isn't allowed, the message below is shown which incorrectly uses 'Your answer' instead of 'Your edit':
Oops! Your answer couldn't be submitted because:
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Undoing an edit by someone else
My question has been edited by a >2k-rep user in a way which makes it oddly formatted (code-quoting of brand names) and grammatically incorrect. Is there a way to undo the edit, apart from just making ...
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Preferences for batch-mode edits?
I like to improve the site where I can; one of my many SEDE queries looks for common typos. Ideally, I would fill some smallish amount of time going through those posts and correcting the typos. When ...
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Trivial edits to remove posts from the close queue?
Background:
Recently when reviewing in the close vote queue, I came across a post that I was pretty sure I had seen some weeks prior. So after a bit of investigation I determined that I had in fact ...
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I don't get why my question needs an edit
This is the second time that someone edits my question.
What's wrong with it? It is short, output from the terminal is formatted. It is vexing.
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editing an answer to add code example, and then it was reverted
on this answer https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/283528/revisions I added example code to actually accomplish what was in the answer. It said use tool XYZ and I showed how to use it specifically as ...
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Adding a tag which refers to the best answer in the case of /sed and /awk when there is also /text-processing?
Here is an edit suggestion which adds a sed tag to a question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/177179
This question does not mention sed anywhere and originally only had the awk ...
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To what extent are changes to posts of others OK? When does the meaning change?
Because it came up again in some of the comments of a particular question here once of at all:
To what extent are changes to posts of others OK?
Background: don_crissti hijacked someone else's answer ...
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What should I do with minor edits made, where I must put much effort into getting it into *usable* state
This is not a duplicate of this question, I believe.
I must put much effort into getting it into his pretty useless edits to be in usable state.
Should I Reject and edit, or Improve an edit, thus ...
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Dealing with questionable edits?
Sometimes a post is edited in a way that changes the author's intent, and the edit somehow ends up being approved.
Take for example this edit: it adds a paragraph (the last one) with no correspondent ...
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Best practice: add and harmonize missing input filenames for Qs & As?
Some coding questions provide sample input files but don't get around to naming the input file. The answerers often make up their own unique input filenames, like "file", "input", "inputfile", or "...
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Viewing posts that you've edited, but were later deleted or merged?
I noticed that I lost four points of reputation earlier, and the number of posts I've edited was also reduced by two. Is there any way for me to tell which of the posts I edited were merged or deleted?...
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"Edit Summary" How to edit a post correctly?
After editing a post, I always put the original text (word, command line etc.) that I removed into the Edit Summary. For example, if I removed "plz help me" or "i need help plzz", that's what I put in ...
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An edit for answer changes it considerably. Should I allow it?
I have a privilege to review pending edits for answers. One edit changes the answer considerably - not only providing minor fixes, but adding external knowledge and changing the answer to the point ...
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Has something happened to shift keys recently?
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like people's shift keys are getting flaky. Maybe it's a manufacturing problem, but I'm afraid it's not. Why would someone go to the effort of capitalizing some words ...
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How do you show images in your posts?
How do you show images in your posts? When I "upload the image" it doesn't show up in the question/answer.
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How to ask an edit reviewer questions about his review of my edit?
my edit suggestion was rejected by someone, and I would like to ask him/her to tell me more specific reasons. How can I do that?
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why my "posts edited" count decrements?
My question is related to "Activity Profile".
And particularly for "posts edited" (Total number of edits made to improve existing posts).
I observed from few days that my count of "posts edited" ...
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What to do with a misleading part of the question?
This question about PATH has a perfectly valid part (Question 1) which has great answers and a score of 267 which show how useful it is. However, the question also has a much longer second part (...
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Dealing with substantial improvements to answers
Some suggested edits are substantial improvements to the original answers, to the point of being better answers by themselves. Is there a recommended way to deal with these? On one hand they are ...
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I got a down-vote I really disagree with and flagging it was probably a mistake
I asked a question some time ago which got mixed response.
I edited the selected answer(myOwn) and short time after I got a down-vote on it which pisses me off because I feel it's a good answer and ...
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See the source of a post when the edit button is disabled
Recently, I saw a nicely formatted question and wanted to see how it was generated, meaning I want to see the "syntax".
But the Edit Button is Disabled and the popup text says "editing not allowed on ...
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Is it appropriate to reword questions to make them more generic in prep to make them community wiki?
Just as the title says: is it appropriate to reword questions to make them more generic?
I've seen a lot of questions that ask the same thing; however, the titles aren't related and the average user ...
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improving closed questions without reopening
I edited this post, which had been put on hold as primary opinion based.
Although I did not get to review it in the Close Review queue, I would have voted to close it myself as well. I did not want ...
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Problematic editing-in of links
Can we have a policy specifically addressing editing in links that add no useful content to answers?
E.g., https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/178457/revisions
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Possible changes highlighting/rendering bug in Edit Review page
So, this is an edit I just got approved a few minutes ago: https://unix.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/73579
I see a very minor discrepancy that may still be a bug though.
First, the ...
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Can the system check for "[enter code here]" in the text?
I wanted to answer this question, and while doing so decided to change the two commands in the text to preformatted text. IIRC I selected the text in the rendered output, and not (as I should have) in ...
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comments to editors
Sombody has just edited my answer. I don't see an argument for this edit. It seems that I cannot address him in a comment though he is shown as editor. I remember similar situations
Wouldn't it make ...
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Editing before vote to close
In this question on meta I requested that the [Edit] button on the Close Vote review queue items would not imply that I want to leave the question open.
The cause of this, is that questions are ...
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Editing items that should be closed even after editing
Today the following item was in the Close Votes Review Queue:
Its bothering me On iftop i can see ip-172---2.ec2.internal Connected to my ubuntu ec2 server for long long time ?? This address doesn'...
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Why aren’t simultaneous edits locked out (made exclusive)?
Twice today I have clicked on the “edit” link for a post,
spent several minutes working on it, and then clicked on “Save Edits”, only to be told
Another edit is awaiting approval for this post.
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How to remove tag?
I accidentally created new tag while editing a question. I need to remove from this site. Is there any privileges required to do so? Or It will automatically get removed after I delete from the ...
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Edits: How trivial is trivial?
I've had a scan and can't find a specific meta question for this.
I'm at the stage where I'm being offered edits for review. There are quite a few edits where the change is to modify maybe two lines ...
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Is it right to edit a new user answer right away?
I know etiquette about editing has been heavily discussed, both on this meta and on StackExchange-meta but I couldn't find an answer for a particular problem.
I found this answer on Unix&Linux. ...
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Is it OK to massively edit a question after receiving a couple responses?
I asked a question while not knowing enough to clearly state my issue. (Here is the question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/108842/15010 .) I received a couple responses that helped me get on the ...
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Since I hit 2K rep, I no longer get reputation from edits. Is this intentional?
The title basically sums it up. I just edited a question and while I'm not 100% sure that I didn't get +2 reputation from the edit - since I didn't look at my reputation count before, only after - my ...
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Is this behaviour adequate? Shouldn't edits add content?
Hi fellows,
I don't want to point fingers in here, but there is a user that has all his reputation from removing "thanks" and "hi". Except for a single answer with one upvote. I know (I read ...
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Only 5 edits a day allowed
Can't find this rule that I just encountered when editing my own questions, to include 1 extra tag that just got created, listed anywhere, but am guessing that someone will find it.
But I digress.. ...
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