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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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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Feature request: Edit without bumping question. [duplicate]
I frequently use MSE to ask math questions. However, I'm not a native English speaker, and a lot of times I make minor grammar or spelling mistakes in my posts. Additionally, on occasion, I might ...
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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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Editing reputation anomaly can generate unbounded reputation?
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I was editing an answer given to my question. Edits included some Latex notations. Edit was approved and I got a reputation of $(+2)$. Later, there were some incompleteness in the answer ...
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Why does this suggested edit not show any tag changes I made?
A couple of days ago, I suggested an edit which was rejected, the reason being
This edit introduces tags that do not help to define the topic of the question. Tags should help to describe what the ...
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Do we really need time limit on editing comments [duplicate]
I find time limit on editing comments annoying and doubt that it is needed at all. My problem is typos that I can't fix if I noticed them too late. If my comment is not answered I post the corrected ...
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Why was my edit rejected by deviating from the original intent?
My edit on this answer just got rejected with the reason below:
This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals ...
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Answer downvotes: should the downvoters be warned when the answer is corrected?
I wrote an answer to a question on MSE. At first, I messed up and went to the wrong direction. Noticing this, I urgely edited my post, changed my development, added a new picture and my answer is now ...
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