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Is a markup change enough improvement to be accepted as an edit?
Referring to the following suggested edit in the review queue: https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/28302046
In case the suggested edit in question isn't accessible any longer, here it is ...
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OP's question was erroneously edited. The moderators want to keep erroneous question as it looks 'pretty' and readable
I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: Truncate column names in SELECT (MySQL client)
The OP for a MySQL query (Truncate column names in SELECT (MySQL client)) had a problem with the ...
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Could we see edits in rendered output without highlighting, please?
In the review queue we can view the changes as "rendered output" or "markdown".
Sometimes I come across reviews that look like this:
I find this hard to read with all the green highlighting going on. ...
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When reviewing edits which are big formatting cleanups, should I check carefully or assume they've done it right?
I've just received permission to approve/reject edits, and I'm getting quite a few where people are basically fixing up badly formatted code. Sometimes these contain around 20+ lines.
I could ...
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Should this edit that put code formatting around controls and languages have been approved? [duplicate]
When I was reviewing suggested edits lately, I come across a user who put code formatting around every language and control that is mentioned in a post. They also added white-spaces after lots of the ...
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The "n identical lines skipped" message within edits appears to break code formatting
I've just completed this review: https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4967134 At first I was going to reject it as it appeared to be too minor, but then I noticed the paragraph at the end, ...
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When should code formatting be used for non-code text?
I reviewed an edit that did no change to the post apart from introducing code formatting like this to words that aren't code, such as iOS and Android (while curiously leaving Delphi untouched). I didn'...
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Improving formatting in review, still requires 6 characters?
I was reviewing a first post by a user, and all that was needed was to format the code part as a code sample (using the '{}' button). But it still requires 6 characters to be considered an edit. How ...
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