Questions tagged [editing]
Editing is a core, fundamental Stack Exchange value -- we allow editing by registered and unregistered users (if peer reviewed).
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How to appropriately retag large number of old wrongly tagged questions?
Some context: Some tags are swamped by wrongly tagged questions. For example the functional-calculus tag. Often this is due to the tag having a name that the average user thinks is related to a ...
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Users above 2K reputation suggesting edits
Hypothetical scenario: Suppose you have 2K+ reputation in MSE. An user posts a question that is unclear. According to the privileges help page, edits suggested by users above this level are ...
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Am I allowed to delete and repost my edited answer to get rid of downvotes?
I posted an answer to a question and it got downvoted. I then edited my answer addressing the likely reasons and I think the downvoters wouldn't downvote it in its currents state (though I can't know ...
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What are the rules for big edits of titles?
When someone posts a question with a really generic title like "Help with algebra problem" I usually check the post to find a better, much more specific title (something like "Property ...
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Why is SE editing suddenly going haywire?
I haven't used SE in several months, and suddenly editing is completely haywire. Has something changed? I updated Chrome, cleared cookies, and restarted my laptop. And I'm running Windows 10.0....
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Arbitrary deletion of reviewed and accepted edit
A question was submitted by a new contributor. The question covered an advanced topic in matrix calculus and received a very good answer which provided detailed coverage of those topics. However the ...
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Error message regarding edit summary
As of this morning, I seem unable to put Edit summaries that I have used in the past. Specifically, I made two formatting edits, and attempted to write "Formatting" in the Edit summary box, ...
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Online preview display of answers/questions works only in the first round of editing in MSE
It seems I am experiencing a bug when working in MSE for some weeks. When I edit my answers/questions for the second time, the online displayer does not work on any devices (i.e., I cannot see any ...
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Editing a post is not a reason for failing an audit.
I was doing some reviewing and I arrived at this post. It contains some explanation and a link to a drawing. In order to understand what the whole thing was about, I decided to edit the question. As ...
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About editing the prominent mistakes
While reviewing many Suggested Edits in Math SE, I've found that many users are editing the prominent mistakes of the author. However, if I'm not wrong, editing should not conflict with the author's ...
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How do I respond to edits?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Minimum losses to eliminate you from top 2 in round robin Someone asked a question about round robin. I answered. He then realized that he ...
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If a question author receives an answer needing some editing, can the answer be edited by the question author so the answer author gets full credit?
I have this question that I want to up-vote an answer for it, namely Algebraically Simplify $n =\left( \frac{ \left(5\right)^{\log 5}} { \left(2 \right)^{\log 2}} \right) ^{ \frac{1} {\log 2-\log 5 } }...
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What to do when there is a minor but crucial typo in a post, where fixing it is too short for an edit suggestion?
What should I do when there is a minor but crucial typo in a post (perhaps of literally one character) that is otherwise perfect? Occasionally I come across a question or answer that is perfect other ...
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Editing a post does not show the edited title [duplicate]
When I edit a question, a preview of the edited content is shown, which makes it easy to know if I'm doing this right. But: when editing the title of a question (e.g. replacing "Z" by "$...
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How should I rewrite the beginning of the linked post?
How should I rewrite the beginning of this post? It seems people aren’t commenting since it’s difficult to understand. Any suggestions are welcomed.
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