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Tagged with editing suggested-edits
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Discouraging serial editors
Is there a way to throttle serial editors who insert minor corrections, unnecessary links and make other similar trivial edits to posts with the sole purpose of farming reputation by editing?
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How to treat suggested edits that "correct a formula"?
Once in a while I see a suggested edit that claims to "correct a formula" (this is usually written in the edit summary). Is there a general "rule"/recommended procedure for such ...
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Difference in "edited posts" in editor stats and user profile
I noticed that there is an inconsistency in the number of edited posts between the "editor stats" (which is the dialog that you can see in post revisions) and the user profile. For example, ...
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Confusion about rejection of edit suggestion
I saw that I had several edit suggestions rejected so I decided to take a look at them, out of curiosity. While most of them were fair, or at least understandable, there was one that I found very ...
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How can I flag a harmful anonymous suggested edit?
I'm new to the "Suggested Edits" review queue. Recently, I was asked to review an edit suggested by an anonymous user which if accepted would actively harm our site. I rejected the edit. Is there a ...
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Stop killing suggested edits in the name of "conflicted with a subsequent edit"
I saw this and thought to edit it by adding a blockquote, do some MathJax formatting and editing tags. And so I devoted 7 minutes (on a mobile device), trying to make StackExchange a better place. And ...
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Cascade of mostly trivial edits by a user
Example today . Many times I cannot see any real changes between the left and right side, but it might be my browser or his/her browser.
Are people increasing their reputation by corrections? It ...
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How to fix incorrect math in old accepted answers?
A couple of weeks ago this question was posted, and the question contained a simple typo in the equations for coordinate rotation. The first answer spent two lines politely correcting this. Then, as ...
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Why does the system block typo-fixing edits below 6 characters?
This question contains a couple of unfortunate typos in the blockquote at the top; however, it seems that I'm not able to propose an edit, because it would be below the minimum limit of 6 characters.
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Can I ask an answerer to Fix a broken link in their post?
In this post:
How can I put a permanent current into a superconducting loop?
There is only one link at the bottom of the only answer. Can I ask the answerer to fix the link? How?
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Harmful edits: which action?
If I find an edit which caused more harm than help by a new user, and which was subsequently approved, is there any action I should take, in addition to fixing the edit? (And in this case, should I ...
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How may one suggest improvements on a tag wiki?
How may one suggest improvements on a tag wiki?
E.g. the name of Huygens in the aether tag description is spelled Huygen.
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When it comes to the Suggested Edits queue, what would you consider a healthy ratio of accept-to-reject?
Some data first. As of today, there have been 27636 suggested edits:
23490 have been approved,
4146 have been rejected,
6873 were improved.
The top 20 reviewers have the following stats:
What do ...
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Received rep twice for the same edit
I suggested one edit to a post, but when it was approved I received rep for it twice. I know there's some sort of autmated rep cleanup done regularly (nightly?), but I'm not sure if this is a known ...
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Can not find edit request that I had skipped
I "skipped" a proposed edit in the review on https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/107909/42975 because I was editing myself quite a lot.
Now, I want to manually apply the useful fixes from it, but can ...
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Is it possible to edit a question if you've already approved someone else's edit?
The following thing has happened to me a couple of times recently:
I come across a question that looks good but has a few minor errors. Someone has suggested an edit which address some of them, so I ...
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Adding picture, what is framing?
In order to improve this post, I was trying to add this picture(it doesn't load here either) to it ; but what I get is:"For security reasons, framing is not allowed; click OK to remove the frames." ...
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Are there limits to editing questions by third parties?
My example is this drastic edit to the question I had replied to, which is a drastic rewrite.
Are the original questioners asked to approve of the change even though their reputation is below 10?
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What determines if a post is editable?
I'd really like to fix a typo in this question: Do we see color with higher frequency first?
But for some reason only the 'link' and 'flag' options are visible to me (no 'edit' or 'retag'). I've ...
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