Questions tagged [suggested-edits]
Users without full edit privileges can suggest edits to posts and tag wikis
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Contradictory application of the policy regarding edits by users with reputation less than 2000
The following is the stated policy regarding edits by some users:
The primary purpose of the Suggested edits queue is to review edits contributed by users who have less than 2,000 reputation and ...
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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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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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Editing reputation anomaly can generate unbounded reputation?
Background:
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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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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Does MSE discourage users to edit new users' or "low quality" posts? [duplicate]
Does MSE discourage users to edit new users' or "low quality" posts?
This seems to be a bit counter-intuitive but I'm unable to think otherwise.
So, we know that when a user below 2000 rep ...
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Are edits removing tags frowned upon?
I tried to remove the tag "set-theory" tag from this question because I thought it was blatantly wrong but my edit was rejected by two reviewers. Does that mean that those reviewers are ...
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List of edits waiting for approval
I want to see the list of all my edits that are still waiting for an approval. Does such a list exist?
If yes, where/how can I see/get such a list?
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Valid Edit accepted by OP, but rejected by Reviewers
I had made one Edit Suggestion to this Question, but it was rejected.
I was wondering whether I was mistaken and the Edit is wrong. Hence, I then made the same Edit Suggestion via Comment and OP ...
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About removing the reputation of suggested-edits and put that reputation to find duplicates
In the context of the current situation, and also, time ago situation, in part for the duplicate-questions on math.SE,
Could it be that, perhaps temporarily, the +2 reputation for the suggested edits ...
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Valid edit suggestion to a post was rejected.
I proposed an edit, two times on Find $\lim_{x \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\arctan (x^{3/2})}{\sqrt x}$. this question but both the times, It got rejected.
For the first time, I ignored it. But it ...
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About the proper tagging of questions on math.SE
There is a question I came across, and it was about the convergence of a Cauchy sequence in a metric space.
OP considered the tags: convergence-divergence, sequences-and-series, general-topology and ...
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Why was my suggested edit rejected despite correcting a calculation error?
I recently found some mistake in the calculation in an answer.
The formula $\color{red} {\int_{x=0}^\infty e^{-(ax^2+bx)}\,dx=\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{\pi}{a}}\exp\left(\frac{b^2}{4a}\right)}$ used in ...
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Why my edit to remove irrelevant commentary was rejected?
I suggested an edit to this question, in order to remove irrelevant commentary, like the intro:
I have been out of school for a long time an have an assignment that I am finding hard to grasp, I ...
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Why did 2 users reject my suggested edit for 2 typos? How can $P(M_2, C_2) + P(M_2, C_2) = 0 + 1/3$?
pls see below picture, and https://math.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/1725174. $P(M_2, C_2)$ can't equal both 0 and 1/3. something is wrong!
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Request for changing post edit rules. [duplicate]
I have noticed that correcting a mathematical mistake in post editing is not allowed; only minor changes are allowed. It is preferable to write a comment explaining the mistake.
The thing that ...
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Should it be "trusted community members" or "trusted community members."?
This might be a general SO thing; I don't make edits on many other sites except MO, where I have edit privileges, so I don't know.
I just noticed that the dialogue when I submit an edit says:
Thanks ...
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Remove the strikethrough on deleted text in suggested edits
I have also posted this feature request on Meta.
I recently reached 2k rep, so I've done my first few suggested edit reviews.
I reviewed this edit, and I noticed something. The strikethrough through ...
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Why Suggested Edit review queue can be reviewed by me when my tag-edit itself has to go through Suggested Edits queue?
Why Suggested Edit review queue can be reviewed by me when my tag-edit itself has to go through Suggested Edits queue?
Here I am talking about users with Suggested Edit privilege but don't have Edit ...
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Question with wrong answer used for duplicates
This question is being used as the main reference when people ask for proofs that $\binom{2^n -1}k$ is always odd, see for example here and here. However, the question and its accepted answer claim a ...
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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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How can I improve my specific question?
My question
I am here to understand how improve to formulate my question.
As matter of fact in the link I have tried to show my attempt and I have required as a question to check if my attempt is ...
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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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Why cannot I approve suggested edits?
I still remember the time as I was able to approve suggested edits. Then at some point my approvals start require an agreement of a further user.
The only possible reason for this restriction I can ...
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Appealing a rejected edit
I recently edited an answer to a question in differential geometry about computing the round metric.
https://math.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/1575851
The provided answer was a correct ...
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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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Is it possible to take back my suggestion on edit an answer or (question)?
I recently suggested an edit to an answer on MSE site, but a few minute later I realized I was wrong and the answer didn't need that edit. So I clicked on the edit again to find an option to cancel ...
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How does this suggested edit “address the author of the post”? [duplicate]
Suggested edit: https://math.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/1483208
Rejection reason:
This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have ...
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Why were my suggested edits rejected? Posters failed to transcribe book's question accurately. Omitted book version, exercise, page numbers
There are four editions of Bartle & Sherbert's Intro to Real Analysis. The posters didn't clarify which.
Keen-ameteur and José Carlos Santos rejected https://math.stackexchange.com/review/...
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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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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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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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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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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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I suggested an edit, title, tag and body on a 5 years old post and was rejected, Why?
I happened to suggest an edit where IMO
I made the title more descriptive,
edited and added text in the body
and added one more tag.
On a 5 years old post.
This https://math.stackexchange.com/review/...
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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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What can be done about problematic suggested edits?
When one encounters a problematic suggested edit one has the option to reject it.
However, in some cases it might seem like more should be done
(this includes a persistent pattern of problematic ...
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Can't see formatted output when reviewing edit
Recently, I've found that when I go to review an edit by a new user, I can only see the markdown, and not the formatted output. Here a screenshot of the top left corner of the page:
I'm sure ...
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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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Suggested edits : changes in titles
When reviewing suggested Edit, there is a side by side view before/after of the post.
Could it possible to have the same feature for changes in the titles? It can be quite difficult to validate an ...
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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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Community makes content edits?
In this particular answer of mine Community account made an edit - I always thought Community is a bot- account. It flipped the colour description of the functions wrongly - what is happening?
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At 5000 point I received a new privilege.
I recently reached 5000 points and I got a message, saying I have a new privilege.
"Approve tag wiki edits"
What does this mean?
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Trying to add the abstract algebra tag
I'm just trying to add the abstract algebra tag to this old question I just bountied and the same user keeps rejecting it:
Closed subscheme of a projective scheme determined by homogeneous ideals
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Why don't I get reputation points for edits anymore?
It has now been 3 days. Although I edit questions, I do not get reputation points anymore. The edits have not been rejected. Any hints, please?
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Abuse "Reject-and-Edit" to reject singlehandedly
Although it requires 2 contributors (rep $\geq2000$) to reject an edit, it only needs 1 by "rejecting and editing" actually. And later, I found this problem have been came up before.
Today I found ...
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What a good title should be?
In guidance How to ask a good question. it states:
Make your title your question
Use your title to convey as much information about your question as possible. Since the tags already convey the ...
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Adding information from comments to an incomplete answer
This is somewhat related to this meta post which received no clear answer.
I recently tried to edit the accepted answer here by adding crucial information its writer wrote in the comments, but that ...
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