Questions tagged [editing]
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Clean up broken links to Google Plus
There is a bunch of information for webmasters that used to live on Google Plus. Google employees such as John Mueller posted there. We have about 150 posts that link to Google plus:
https://...
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Why doesn't URL appear in this question's rendered output?
In the following question:
How to make custom footer in page stick to bottom when the content is less?
The question text stops abruptly, which suggests something is missing:
You could find the ...
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A polite note about my rollback of the edit on "Why is my subdomain not showing up?"
On the question "Why is my subdomain not showing up?", my answer had an edit suggested and approved which removed the domain and subdomain I used and replaced it with example.com and sub.exampled.com.
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Fixing 21 grammatical errors is a "minor change" worth of rejection?
I edited a question, fixing 21 grammatical errors. A moderator rejected this edit, calling it a "minor change":
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/47688
The same moderator ...
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Edit / Reedit question
Do we need RSS buttons?
So, this is the question. As you can see, the part of question up clearly doesn't add up anything. I've edited it, then a user does a rollback. I've edited it again, then he ...
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Can I reply to moderator's question edit?
I've seen that a moderator edited my question and I wanted to know if it is possible to leave a reply. I've seen I can edit the question again, but I think this could end up in the moderator editing ...
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Why was this suggested edit rejected?
A post had broken Markdown, as follows:
[link one][1] and [link two][1]
[1]: https://example.com/one
[2]: https://example.com/two
See the flaw? [link two][1], means that both links are in fact ...
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Is it ok to remove spam links from an off-topic question even after flagging the question as Spam?
Today I removed a spam link from an off-topic question (Removed for reasons of moderation) and flagged that question as Spam. Even after flagging it as Spam, I removed the link from the question since ...
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Numbered lists are broken after the second list item?
I've just noticed this whilst attempting to fix the formatting of the numbered list in this question, but I can't!?
UPDATE: Sorry, I thought this problem was more general at first, however, it only ...
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Syntax highlighting for code?
On Stack Overflow, code can have syntax highlighting.
I’d like to have this feature here on Webmasters, too.
Especially the codes:
lang-html
lang-css
lang-js
lang-xml
(And lang-none, if auto-...
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Why has my reputation stopped increasing when I've been earning points for editing?
My reputation stopped increasing at 1190 for the past 4 days, but I had been making edits that were approved, so I had earned reputation for edits during that time.
When I checked the next day ...
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Should we create some kind of guidelines for posts formatting?
As many of you know, I like editing posts (proof) to try to standardize formatting on this site.
It helps to keep this site clean and it improves quality of the posts.
Here are some suggested rules ...
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Non-essential edit to be able to unupvote
My several weeks old answer was edited today: the only change was italicization of all three occurences of "robots.txt". I’d consider this a "too minor" edit.
3 seconds after the edit, the answer was ...
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I lose 2 reputation points for each removed post or user
When a user or a post I edited in the past is removed by a moderator, I lose 2 points of reputation.
I understand this rule for any user who earn 2 reputation points when his post edit is accepted by ...
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Why are some tags changed automatically?
Sometimes when I edit a question, I choose a tag but it doesn't taken into account. Is someone can tell me why some tags are changed automatically?
For example, I have edited a question by addind the ...
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My question was just closed, how could I reword it in order to get an answer?
My question was just closed, and I realize the error of my ways.
I was asking a bit of an opinion question that would "likely elicit extended discussion or debate".
I guess I'd like to know ...
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Creating a new tag on a question that wasn't asked by me
Just a little question about tagging.
If I create a new tag by editing a question wasn't asked by me, the tag is considered as created by the question's owner or created by me?
My question is ...
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Enough with the bold italic and editing every old question, please
EDIT 2.25: At the time of this writing, every single question on the main page has been touched by Bybe, covering the span of a single hour. Newer topics going back as much as 21 hours(at which point ...
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Edit a question doesn't reflect the same content
For this question, if you click on edit, the textarea will be fill up with a more recent edit (I think).
The displayed question is:
Hi All: Is there any open source project that can be used to ...
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Should we have a way to "red flag" an answer that becomes incorrect with passage of time?
No doubt any technology forum has the problem of old answers being potentially incorrect or less useful with the passage of time (except SQL, ha-ha). ;-)
Seriously, though, I think that SEO answers ...
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