Questions tagged [editing]
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Change "MathJax help" link on Markdown help page
The "MathJax help" link in the "LaTeX" section of the Markdown Editing Help page currently leads to https://legacy-www.math.harvard.edu/texman/ – but that page doesn't actually ...
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Request to Approve Edit, so I can Edit more
Request to Users
A few days back, this query was posted, because my suggestions on Computer Science Stack Exchange were not getting approved.
I was advised to post about suggestion on the per-site ...
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Why there are "editing rights"?I think u should not edit other people's writing, comment or maybe delete
I do not think it is ethically right for someone to edit other person words. You may comment with what you want, or vote to delete if you find something wrong in what is written as a principle (racist/...
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fixed bug in answer code; edit rejected with strange reason
I submitted an edit correcting a code bug in an answer to a popular and old question. A reviewer recommended to reject with reason:
This edit was intended to address the author of the post and ...
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Trivial edits to old answers
Related: Trivial edits to closed/on-hold questions.
Recently, we seem to be getting a lot of edits to old answers (two or three years) where the edit does nothing other than correct a particular user'...
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Evolving the tags of a question
Is it appropriate to modify the tags of a question to better reflect
the issues that appear important with respect to answers?
If the answer is yes, how far can it go?
For example, an answer might ...
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Trivial edits to closed/on-hold questions
Recently, we seem to be getting a lot of edits to closed/on-hold questions that do nothing at all to address the reason the question was closed. For example, edits that improve the formatting or ...
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How far should edits go before a new question should be asked?
Somewhat following on from this recent meta question, how much of a change should someone make to a question before they should simply ask a new question?
As a case study, this question was asked ...
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Q&A asking for better A
I asked a question and provide an answer, also I asked for solution better than my own. Then my question been edited and my request for better solution than my own been removed. Was that a good edit, ...
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How should one react when the meaning of a question is changed?
In this question here it was asked if there are better algorithms for TSP than the naive brute force method. It received three answers, that all answer the question. After some hours, the OP changed ...
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Is it possible to draw a matrix with SE mark down?
I wanted to know if it possible to draw a matrix with math tags. I googled and also read 'formatting help', but couldn't find any info. I wanted to edit this question. I think its not possible, but I ...
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An strange , spontaneous edit done to a question
I asked a question that was a bit hard to explain , so I had to edit it with every comment on it.
I noticed that in one of my edits (edit #13), I have somehow reverted all of the previous edits. If ...
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Is there ever any point in adding "EDIT:" to a question or answer?
I was skimming through new questions, such as this one. I suggested an edit I couldn't make myself. The OP made the change, but added it in as "EDIT: Thing X means blah". Is there ever really any ...
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How can I stop users from changing the content of my question?
I recently asked a question where I was asking how to solve a context of type A using a context of type B.My question was how to use context B.I didn't explain the exact context A because my question ...
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MathJax broken after submitting an edit
Recently, after I perform an edit, it seems the mathjax rendering takes more space than it is given, resulting with overlapping with the text after it. Example (from q10437, right after editing it):
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Editing a question and (almost) all the answers!
This question here: Algorithmic intuition for logarithmic complexity where the question, and almost all the answers are using BigOh when they really mean Theta and as written, the answers are ...
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Please edit your question, it's easy
I asked a question on the main site. One of the users suggested to edit it and delete some parts which are covered by a Wikipedia article. When I did it, one of the answerers complained that by the ...
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Can't edit question
I don't see any link to edit this question. I think it was the first question asked here, and I wanted to improve its grammar a bit, to make it more readable, but no edit link appears among the others....
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