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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Should blanket changes in terminology across posts be reverted?
Edit It seems another user posted essentially the same question here while I was writing this one. I'll close this question as a duplicate if/when it becomes possible.
I got a notice earlier this ...
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User changing terminology [duplicate]
I have spotted that a user is editing old posts and changing every occurrence of "the Hawaiian earring" with "the infinite earring". As far as i know this is not standard ...
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Posts need to be revised to be more visible in search results
Preamble
Please note that the suggestion in this post likely seems practically impossible due to the huge number of questions on this community; however, please let us deal with it constructively ...
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Why do edits have to be at least 6 characters?
I am wondering why edits are required to be at least 6 characters.
As an example, someone answered the question How to calculate the integral of a Legendre polynomial excellently but for a typo, which ...
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Should I edit the question before starting a bounty, or start a new question?
I have a question I would like to start a bounty on. But I would like to edit the question to add the possibility for a stronger result. The question I want to start a bounty on is this question:
For ...
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Proposed new solution to having unwanted noise and unfairly exposed questions again after editing on this site as to not decrease the site quality.
It has been noticed that when editing my own posts, that I sometimes get annoyed with a small wrong detail in a post that I then do a 5 character or less edit. Here is proof of this causing trouble ...
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Accidentally editing without knowing a question was closed in the review queue made a question unable to be reopened. New feature to prevent this.
I have seen this large issue with this website which can endanger the new user:
It was accidentally done that one edited the question of another user whose question was already closed, but then had ...
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Approved edit that makes question *less* readable
I recently encountered the following edit of a question: https://math.stackexchange.com/revisions/4126525/2
I hope everyone here agrees that the edit is not appropriate. A minor thing is that editing &...
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If I recognize the source of someone's question, should I edit to add it?
(c.f. How to ask a good question's Include source / motivation for your question and the preceeding discussion in Is it a good idea to include source from where a question is taken?)
Occasionally, I ...
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Answer preview in MSE not appearing
Whenever I am going to write an answer or edit someone's post, I am not able to see its preview under the answer writing section in MSE. Why is this happening?
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Editing a post for activity [duplicate]
Is it acceptable to edit a post (adding a random comma, adding more spaces, etc.) just for the sake of activity?
It could be used to draw more attention to the post since it comes to the top of the ...
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What is the motivation for pointless edits? [duplicate]
I am trying to understand why a certain user keeps making pointless edits that add nothing to a question. The one that sparked this post is the fourth edit to this question, which simply inserts a ...
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Can you copy paste MathJax? [duplicate]
I am a big procrastinator when it comes to learning MathJax. I happened to remember that only before asking a question. Is there perhaps a shortcut to simply copy an equation from one part of the site ...
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The grace period for editing the posts.
So far I was sure that during approximately 5 minutes after posting an answer/question the author can edit it without the changes being documented in the edit history. However in this answer the ...
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Notification about math jax for new users
I saw a problem which is common for new users who are using math jax. although they can write formula for example it is not hard to guess to show $x^2$ you should write ...
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Bringing the new feature to MSE in order to make writing formulas easier
There is a site for searching formulas on stack exchange called SearchOnMath. On the site you can see an option called "Add Formula" click on that, then you can choose any symbol you want ...
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Partially-unresolved questions with substantial progress: should I post a very long question, or a question + answer?
Most of my questions on math.SE come up in the course of personal investigations into some topic, and usually get asked after a fair bit of reflection and attempted work on the problem. Unlike ...
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How to make or suggest good edits
What should I do when editing a post, or suggesting an edit?
Math SE is a collaborative platform where almost anyone can contribute. One way in which you can improve the site is by editing posts (...
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Edit Recent Posts to Display HTML-Tables with Markdown
Users have been using $\rm\LaTeX$'s array environment for displaying tables. For instance, in the MathJax Tutorial's "Table" section,
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Corresponding highlight when editing MathJax
When editing a complex formula, it is easy to get lost in a sea of MathJax code. The suggested feature is, when editing posts with MathJax:
(1) When a portion of a MathJax code is selected in the edit ...
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Is this considered “farming”?
I have noticed several times the same person editing low quality questions. The most recent example is this one. However, this edit simple replaced "fourier-fourier" (which is an obvious ...
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Should I edit the question, or delete it and repost the question?
I am speaking on reference to this question :- In $\Delta ABC,$ side $AC$ and the perpendicular bisector of $BC$ meet at $D$, where $BD$ bisects $\angle ABC$.
The Problem is that others had discussed ...
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Are Tag-only edits too minor (the use of the Number-Theory tag)?
As a relatively new participant (long time user) of Math.SE I must confess that my knowledge of what is considered "appropriately non-minor" as an edit is certainly lacking. This question ...
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Edit highlighting seems incorrect
I believe the color highlighting here should be showing that the third formula
$$\implies (\alpha-\beta ) z+\beta (\bar z +z) + \gamma - \alpha \bar z = 0$$
was changed to
$$\implies (\alpha-\beta ) z+...
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Is my workaround for the minimum character limit okay?
I tried to edit this answer, simply by adding 2 pairs of parentheses which fell short of the 6 character minimum limit.
So I cancelled the edit and suggested the change via a comment, then the OP did ...
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Is the rollback attempt in this thread appropriate?
This is an issue with this specific question. Please look at the revision history here. I merely improved an attempt by the asker (which was written as a comment), making it clearer. I did not ...
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Vandalizing question posted by others
Today I found a rather weird case where a question had been vandalized by another user to a completely different question.
I did a search here and saw a lot of posts on vandalizing questions posted by ...
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Should we retroactively tag all relevant questions that are missing a relevant tag, or not?
For example, I've just now realized that,
When searching questions that contain the word "palindrome" but do not contain the appropriate tag [palindrome], ...
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Deleting 'thanks for help' from posts
What's the stance on edits where the only real change is deleting, "Thanks for the help in advance," or similar? I think it'd be best if the OP didn't write them in the first place but I ...
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Guidelines for context edits and rewrites
Suppose you come across a question that has been closed for lack of context, has high quality answers, and on its way to being deleted. Can you save the post by editing it to include more context?
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How to remove the pink edit box?
When editing answers and questions on Math Stack Exchange, I always see a pink box in which it is written 'How to Edit'. Now the problem with this box is that it hides the "Save edits" ...
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Why is there no edit option below the question?
This is not the first time but many times I've encountered this problem. There is no 'edit' option below the question as it usually is. Here's the screenshot:
What might be the reason for this?
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Edit in progress warning
I often feel it is a waste of time when you are editing a question and shortly before you finish you see that the question already got edited, and your edit does not improve the corrections which were ...
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Improving other's questions via adding solution attempts in the question [duplicate]
This is a bit of a puzzler for me and I'd like to try to work out what our community norms and guidelines are around this topic.
Suppose user A posts a question which is a bit light on context. User B ...
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Editing the title/body of a question hours after asking?
I asked a question which received some comments immediately. Only after the comments came in did I realize that I should ask my question differently. I edited the question then.
I now realize that the ...
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Someone edited my answer. Now it is wrong.
There has been an edit to an old answer of mine and it was approved by other two users. Now the answer is wrong, obviously.
What should I do?
I'm not happy about this at all. How can it be that some ...
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Should users that by now, should already have +2k but due to some reason have less than 2k, be suggesting edits?
I was observing that some users, by now, should already have 2k points or more, but due to say bounties here and there, have less than 2k.
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“Improve this question” button on deleted posts goes to a page which says “This post is deleted and cannot be edited.”
I went into my "recently deleted answers" tab and found this question (which is now deleted, so you cannot see it if you have <10k rep) which I answered. I can't normally see deleted ...
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Curiosity question - Why does “Hi!” get removed at the beginning of posts?
Out of habit I write "Hi!" at the beginning of my questions and I noticed it got automatically removed, and then when I edited to add it back in, it got automatically removed again.
I'm just ...
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Why was my retag rejected?
A couple of days ago I was looking for algebraic geometry questions to answer and this question appeared in my feed. It has nothing to do with algebraic geometry, so I wanted to remove that tag in ...
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Quick restoration of recent faulty edit
I request Quanto's post to be restored.
Expressing $1 + \sin(x) - \cos(2x) $ as a product
I had edited by error sandbox mode and pasted my own answer, an embarrassing situation.
Raised a flag 10 ...
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Why can't I edit my own deleted (hidden) question?
There was an issue in my last question on Math.Stackexchange. I wanted to first formulate the general idea of my question, and then work on the question a little bit. It would be ideal if I could do ...
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Clarifying a factually incorrect case but editor opts for formatting change instead?
I am trying to edit this answer, which makes a claim about eigenvectors that is not true for all matrices. My edit was rejected. Instead, the editor followed up with a baffling formatting edit that ...
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What do you do when, in editing with MathJax, what you see in the preview is OK but the result is all messed up?
I tried to edit this answer. When the preview looked OK, I saved the edit, but the actual outcome was a mess. I tried various workarounds, but each time the result, despite a good preview, was worse ...
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Simultaneous editing
Sometimes I see a question on the main site which I feel could be improved on and when I click the edit button it says something along the lines of "this question is already being edited by someone ...
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Are there any tools to automatically correct math formulas?
I am a person who prefer standard formula, so I often edit the formula to make it look better. But I find most of the mistakes or malformedTeX writing have repeated pattern. For example: ...
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When should one not edit their own questions?
I am the type of person who unfortunately makes a lot of mistakes of the dumb kind with miscalculations. Sometimes I end up posting my questions containing those miscalculations.
Is it ok to edit my ...
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Improved wrong comments written with MathJaX? [duplicate]
Sometimes I see that some comments are written with command or syntax errors.
In fact they are displayed in red (for example $\gama$ instead of \gamma ($\gamma$)) ...
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Isn't changing $\sum_x^y …$ to $\displaystyle \sum_x^y …$, 8 times, an improvement on an answer?
How come an edit was rejected if it improved the formating?
Isn't changing $\sum_x^y...$ to $\displaystyle \sum_x^y...$, 8 times, an improvement on an answer ?
(notice the above it's just an ...
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List of commonly misspelled words
Judging by some of the posts on meta1 and comments posted there it seems that there are users who try to improve the posts by correcting spelling mistakes. Of course, there are other ways to improve ...
