Timeline for Editing posts protocol: "Please help", and trivial edits
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| Oct 4, 2015 at 1:06 | comment | added | Glen_b Mod | @Silverfish that's an important point to make, thanks. Either the OP should be encouraged to edit the question to include the important information (good if they're likely to respond), or a kind editor should add it for them. | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 22:04 | comment | added | Silverfish | I agree with @Glen_b ... it's also worth pointing out, for those who aren't aware, that the site's internal search feature does not search through comments, only question title, question body and answers. If a keyword appears extensively in the comments and not at all in the body/title then it may be worth editing to include it (though unless this was an especially glaring omission, I'd only do it if there was something else to fix). This is a rare occurrence but sometimes happens in those situations where the OP only reveals what they really want in a comment/ | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | Glen_b Mod | I'll mention two circumstances where I think even seemingly trivial edits are worth making: (1) Titles should be correctly spelled, especially with keywords. (2) even in body text, important keywords are worth spelling correctly. This is because people may be trying to search for posts and correctly spelled titles (and keywords more generally) make that easier. | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 17:40 | comment | added | Erik | @Silverfish that is what I meant. He should move it into this answer, since he was the one that brought it up. | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 17:36 | comment | added | Silverfish | (Or Nick's comment could be incorporated fairly easily into this answer, this being CW.) | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 17:31 | comment | added | Erik | @Silverfish Agreed. | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 17:25 | comment | added | Silverfish | Actually, that's true, it can help future answerers addressing the needs of the OP. As part of a larger edit I will generally strip it out on questions where the OP has already been satisfactorily answered. There's no obligation on answers to reflect the ability of the OP, since answers are for the benefits of future readers too. Here's one of my all-time favourite answers on CV,as an example... | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 17:20 | comment | added | Erik | @Silverfish There is some value to "I'm a novice" in my opinion. This is because the level of abstraction/answer should be adjusted for novices. It might be obvious to you that "Because of ABC it is obviously follows XYZ" but not to me. I agree with your other points though. | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 17:12 | comment | added | Silverfish | (+1) for Nick Cox's suggestion. Another thing that I tend to remove is "this is probably a stupid question", "I'm a novice in ...", etc which comes under Nick's "anything that doesn't explain or clarify the technical question" banner. | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 14:05 | history | edited | Erik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed etc spelling
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| Oct 2, 2015 at 10:19 | history | edited | Nick Cox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2015 at 9:25 | comment | added | Nick Cox | Good points. Some suggested others: 1. Edit with a view that people are asking a technical question, so anything that doesn't explain or clarify the technical question should go (personal chit-chat, pleas of urgency or desperation, etc.). 2. It's not the job of an edit to fix substantive errors or confusions, change the notation to one more accurate or congenial, etc. Fixing those often features in appropriate answers or comments. 3. No one is obliged to edit to rewrite very poorly presented questions, which can be voted to close on the grounds that it's unclear what is being asked. | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 9:04 | history | edited | ScortchiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2015 at 8:41 | history | edited | ScortchiMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2015 at 8:04 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | Any guidance on when exactly activity is slow? (With the time zone indicated, please.) | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 23:08 | comment | added | Silverfish | I added one extra point, re batch editing. Can't remember whether it was mentioned in this chat but it is certainly an issue that has been raised before and there seemed to be fairly clear consensus on. | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 23:06 | history | edited | Silverfish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
as explained in comments
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| Oct 1, 2015 at 22:51 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Erik | ||
| Oct 1, 2015 at 22:23 | history | answered | Erik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |