Questions tagged [editing]
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Correcting incorrect answers
I have a strong aversion to having edits applied to my work without my approval. Because of that, I don't do that to what others have written.
So what should be done with obviously wrong answers? I ...
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Are salutations, sign-offs and other politese appropriate?
Recently physics.SE has seen more users regularly including salutations and sign-off in their posts. That behavior has been strongly discouraged on Stack Overflow for a very long time, and I would ...
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Very minor edits, e.g. punctuation
Is there going to be a way for me to make a very minor edit, e.g. punctuation, without pushing the question to the top of the activity date sort?
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Should we disallow vast (self-)editing of a question, completely changing its meaning?
Here is one thing that really annoyed me about science-related forums: The constant change of the topic by a person, who is obviously just afraid that he'll/she'll look ignorant, incompetent or lazy ...
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The proposed changes to the text editor would break this site
You have probably seen already a link, on the Featured on Meta sidebar, to an announcement of an upcoming upgrade to the text editor on Stack Exchange, Opt-in alpha test for a new Stacks editor.
As a ...
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Let's not have posts look like revision histories
Inspired by this meta post on RPG.SE: I think we should keep in mind that posts with lots of "Edit:" and "Update:" sections are a bit hard to read from beginning to end, and we should strive to avoid ...
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Minor edits should not make questions 'active'
This issue has been bugging me for a while now. I suppose it's more appropriate for the main SE site, but I want to know how others feel about it.
I find it very annoying that the 'active questions' ...
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Radically editing closed questions
This post is in regards to events occurring with the question Do tachyons move faster than light (see also chat starting around here), but the question is to be applied to a site-wide policy.
The ...
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Is an asker's age relevant?
In Why does Newton's Third Law actually work?, the asker states their age in the question. (They are 10 years old.)
On the one hand, their age does not have anything to do with Newton's Third ...
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Should I not edit my old questions on a spree?
I recently visited a couple of old questions that I had posted and there were a lot of edits (mainly grammatical but not all) that I wanted to make. I edited a couple of them and went back to the ...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
This is a follow-up to one of the possible answers raised in the thread The proposed changes to the text editor would break this site.
Prosemirror-math is a math editing framework that allows for ...
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Retagging and suggesting edits
Why when someone retags a question (and also when he or she suggests an edit, I think) that question becomes the first in the list of 'active' questions???
This is very inconvenient — I hate it — ...
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Vote locked in till the answer or question is edited
I have voted on questions and answers then pondered on it to undo my vote the next day and it is locked in. It says I cannot change my vote until it is edited, but unfairly the people are not notified ...
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Should abbreviations and acronyms be discouraged?
Occasionally, I pass over a question merely because I don't understand an abbreviation or acronym. I wonder if the instructions should encourage the definition of these things in the body of the ...
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20 most viewed questions that need answers
Updated 8 Aug 2022
Here are 20 most viewed questions that need answers. Some of these questions may have answers with negative votes. Only questions with upvotes will be removed from this list. This ...
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Is it OK to change commas to narrow no-break spaces in numbers when editing a post?
As a non-native English speaker, I find it utterly confusing to read text containing figures like "1,234 m", which in English means 1234 m while for a person used to read e.g. French or German (person'...
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If I see a question mentioning an AI as the source, should I modify it?
I was reading this question and saw that it started by saying
ChatGPT was providing a glimpse of the 8 possible gluon color states:
This horrified me as current AI models are definitely not a good ...
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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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Why don't I see a button for "improve" on tag wiki edits?
When reviewing edits there is text inviting to improve the edit:
Approve, reject, or improve edits suggested by users. (less)
Approve edits you know are correct
Reject those you know are wrong
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Parsing of revisions involving insertion of dollar signs
Extremely niche thing here that hardly affects anyone at all, but seems worth reporting to someone.
I was reviewing a suggested edit (number 3 in the revision history) in side-by-side mode. One of ...
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How do you guys feel about minor edits?
I recently saw a post (a question) where the edits made were as follows (no link, do not want to single out):
Edit 2 (suggested, approved) was numerous but minor grammar / capitalization fixes; the ...
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What should be done about this question and questions like this, where the OP is just received misguided information?
I am quite sure this question was a result of misguided information presented to the OP about Special relativity. But I think the OP only wanted a thought-experiment kind of proof for length ...
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Completely changing a question vs asking a new question [duplicate]
When a OP has one of their questions closed one of the main desirable outcomes is for the OP to edit the question to address the issues that led to the closure. However, where should we draw the line ...
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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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Editing tags not allowed because not 6 characters?
I was trying to edit the post "Big Bang Anybody?" by adding a popular-science tag to it.. While until now, even if I didn't edit the body of the post, I could still edit the tags. However, it seems ...
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What happens with "the explanation of the Mendeleev table"?
Who can explain me the strange things that happen all the way with my question about the Mendeleev table here? At the beginning I could not edit it or make comments after it. That's why I tried to ...
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am I allowed to ask a user to be an editor for me
I am legitimately curious because if I find someone who understands me can I ask them to edit all my questions that others might not understand?
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How much editing of a question is acceptable? (e.g. Chicken Question)
In regard to the chicken question meta post one of the answers included this paragraph:
This opinion is based purely on the actual question, and ignores the silly story. Surely the silly story can be ...
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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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What does the sentence below, which is only visible in the edit mode of an answer I gave, mean?
In this answer I posted there is a "sentence" visible when you look at the end of the edit version of the answer (visible when you "push" the "edit button" below the answer). The sentence isn't ...
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Why does the community allow or even encourage seemingly meaningless edits to questions and answers?
For example, editing the (long inactive) question to
add trivial tags, like faq
Change tags to synonymous tags, e.g. Classical Mechanics to Newtonian Mechanics
Correct insignificant grammatical ...
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Is it okay to edit a question (on the main site) to downvote it after you initially upvoted it?
On the PSE main site (so not on this site), I normally never downvote a question or answer, but sometimes you change your thought about this (after upvoting). Is it okay to edit (when I wanted to ...