Questions tagged [editing]
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What is the purpose of this edit?
An edit in question. (I rolled back, because it was damaging.)
It is approved by Community Bot.
It put some link into square brackets, else what it did is to add several instances of the phrase Please ...
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How to edit a tag?
(I don't have tag edit privilege yet)
In the "tags" context when hovering over a tag, there is a link like "improve this tag" that allows me to edit the "tag wiki".
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A vandal edit by the answer author
I wonder what's going on here:
https://serverfault.com/a/932629/325117
https://serverfault.com/a/922350/325117
https://serverfault.com/a/933012/325117
The normal topic answer changed into absolutely ...
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Edits shouldn't require a minimum number of characters changed
Just now I submitted an edit to an answer that only needed some extra command-line options. But I couldn't submit it as intended because it only added up to 4 characters changed, and the requirement (...
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Suggested edit queue full
This is an all too common occurrence on Serverfault. Most of the times I've attempted to edit something, the queue is full. I'm aware of that it takes time to empty the queue, but having a constantly ...
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Altering a error message when it is JSON
I added some markdown to the question: Azure Machine Learning Classic web service gives the error too many open devices
While I consider it benefits from syntax highlight, now it displays a horizontal ...
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Proposed edit makes no sense?
I've got an edit rejected, which is ok, but I'm a bit puzzled by the rejection comment.
This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been ...
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There is a spelling error in my comment and I can't edit it. What are my options?
I've already made an appointment with my psychiatrist. What else can I do now that editing is no longer possible?
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Why did I not get notified that my edit was declined?
I recently asked this question, received a helpful answer to it, and edited the answer in an attempt to expand on it.
The answer itself was helpful and certainly answered my question, but adding more ...
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Is it okay to update accepted answer on my own question?
Yesterday I asked this question – All requests go into ELB surge queue, and eventually got a partial reply which lead me a right direction of finding a more clear answer, that was provided by the ...
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Is it 'Minor Edit Week' or something?
I've noticed that this week we're getting a lot of tiny pointless edits to posts (https://serverfault.com/users/100013/jakegould, https://serverfault.com/users/294235/lnux?tab=activity) - how are they ...
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Editing content on 4 year-old questions isn't always necessary
I mean, sometimes content is intentional. Look at the revision history on this:
Centos 6.3 install reiserFS support
The question was from 2012. The content within was deliberate, and this was the ...
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Why am I not being notified when my posts are edited?
About an hour ago one of my answers was edited.
However, I didn't get a notification of the edit in my inbox.
I spoke to some other users, who told me they are receiving notifications of edited posts. ...
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Does copy editing Unicode punctuation into posts contribute value?
This isn't specific to SF, but it came up recently and it's worth a brief touch point. Recently in the review queue, I stumbled upon the following edit:
Before:
How do you troubleshoot Apache ...
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Should we approve edits that remove chatty anecdotes from answers?
An edit was approved for one of my answers today that seems on the chin rubbing side of pedantry to me.
Question: How to delete .fuse_hidden* files?
Answer: https://serverfault.com/a/478619/152073
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