Questions tagged [help-text]
For issues, corrections, or discussions about the wording and content of help center pages.
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Typo in help pages: "the the" instead of "the"
I noticed a small typo in two of the help pages. The text contains "the the" instead of "the".
The pages where this occurs are:
How do I delete my account?
How do I format - ...
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What does this guidance on the flag dashboard mean, and why is the text different when there are no active flags?
On the moderator flag dashboard page, when there are no flags, I see the following text on the right side (if I click the button labeled Details next to "Where should I start?" to expand ...
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Add explanatory link/guidance to the sidebar of the "orphan wikis" mod tool page
(Context: I just became a moderator in the elementary OS Stack Exchange site, and am learning the ropes.)
The sidebar of the /admin/orphan-wikis moderation page shows a generic text that simply says:
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The main help page for badges should specify that a tag must be on 100+ questions to earn tag-specific badges for it
The description for the requirements to get a tag-specific badge listed on the /help/badges page says (for a bronze badge, for instance):
You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-...
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The text above the "edit" box should clarify that you shouldn't use edits to fix an incorrect answer
I asked whether you should use edits to fix an answer that is incorrect, and the consensus was that you should not:
Should you use edits to change the conclusion of an answer, or should you post a new ...
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Careers new job listing help text is missing a space in 'Server Fault'
When creating a job listing on careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/post, under 'Key Technologies or Roles', the help text for the option 'This is a systems or database administration job' shows 'Server ...
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Backslashes after each code block example when answering
I'm seeing useless backslashes when answering a question and displaying the Markdown help.
Reproduce the bug:
Answer to this question
Click on the "?" button ("Markdown editing help")
Click on any ...
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Tweak the help text for how to make links on comments [duplicate]
Could we get the help text for comments tweaked a tiny bit? I always find [link](http://www.example.com) confusing, because http://www.example.com is a link.
Just now, I actually went to one of my ...
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Formatting text help button in chat comments should be easier to see
I noticed there is no clear way on how to format text in chat comments. When it comes to Questions and Answers there is a formatting tool bar and also a question mark button with more help. Even ...
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Broken wording in comment field hint [duplicate]
As you can see below, we're missing some words.
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36
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Do we need the here's-how-it-works-banner on the help center for experienced users?
In the new Help Center, we have a banner which is the same as the banner we already had on the homepage for users that weren't logged in. This is the homepage:
And this is the help center:
I'm going ...
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The question help text is out of date
I noticed this while I was asking a question on Database Administrators.
I thought I remembered a way to link Stack Exchange questions to other Stack Exchange questions, so I went looking for that in ...
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Missing period in explanation about review queue badges
When mousing over the badge progress in a review queue, one gets the following explanation:
These badges are awarded once per review queue
which is missing a period. Can someone fix this admittedly ...
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Should we edit spelling mistakes or not?
You can't ask for
to fix grammatical or spelling mistakes
and discourage
tiny, trivial and single character edits
at the same time.
...to distinguish this from other questions: I don’t care if ...
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help-popup on chat is too big
I wanted to know how to format stuff in chat, and clicked the help link. There was this popup:
Shows that it does not fit in my browser window, and also is not scrollable (if I scroll, it only scrolls ...
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