Questions tagged [editing]
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Why were two edits 29 sec apart not counted as a common edit?
I noticed a few very minor formatting issues in Large(ish) finite non-abelian subgroups of $\operatorname{GL}_n \mathbb C$ for $n>70$ and, since it was on the front page, decided to fix them as ...
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Edits to capitalization in titles
Given that
there are different rules for the capitalization of words in headlines, e.g. for newspapers; here is randomly chosen link to some rules
there are no related styleguides for MO
I would ...
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Edit summary rejected with "Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment."
I recently tried to submit an edit to Why does an invariant measure define a Schwartzman cycle? No matter what I put in my edit summary, it was rejected with the message "Comment reserved for ...
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Writing a bar on top of a number
I want to write a question in which I have a bar on top of a number or letter to represent a recurring digit. however, I can't find any options to write the particular digit, even when I search the ...
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Making my post easier to read
I tried to make this post easier to read but find it extremely difficult to get through grammatical-wise.
I'm wondering if there is someone who can correct the grammar of this post or rewrite the ...
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Update on "Who owns my MathOverflow posts?"
I saw the question previously asked in:
Who owns my MathOverflow posts?
Unfortunately, I was not able to get a clear answer by reading the responses to that question, as other people had commented ...
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MathJax in edited question title gets badly mis-parsed in diff view
A recent question received an edit to its MathJax, including in the title. Viewing the diff in the edit history, the edited MathJax in the title gets very badly mis-parsed in the diff view, as shown ...
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How is TeX rendered in edit summaries?
I recently edited a question Dynkin type classification for 2-dimensional hypersurfaces in non-commutative space, and entered as my edit summary "$<x,y>$ -> $\langle x,y\rangle$" <...
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Edit history lost on migration
According to a comment, @Marco's answer to Notation about n choose k permutations was edited before migration. However, nothing displays in the edit history. (This seems appropriate to ask here since ...
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Why is there unexpected space at the beginning of a paragraph in an answer?
In @GabeK's nice answer to @JonBannon's question Each mathematician has only a few tricks, there is unexpected space at the beginning of the third paragraph:
My first thought was that there might be ...
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Can (and should) Project Euclid links be replaced in bulk?
In February 2021, Project Euclid made some changes on their website: Project Euclid Platform Migration FAQs.
It is probably a consequence of this that the links starting with ...
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Editing old question, can't submit as title is too long
I'm editing Is there a canonical map from the cohomology of orbifold Chiral de Rham on an orbifold to the cohomology of Chiral de Rham on a crepant resolution? as there was a broken arXiv Front link (...
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Best way to correct "Cauchy-Schwarz" misspellings
I would like to apologize because the top questions page is currently overrun by questions I just edited.
I just noticed that Cauchy-Schwarz is often incorrectly spelled Cauchy-Schwartz and so I made ...
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Reputation displays after an edit even if opted out
I mentioned this in a comment on the main announcement regarding not automatically displaying reputation, but perhaps it is worth making into a formal bug report.
After I edit a post, reputation is ...
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To which extent can one modify another's question?
One highly off-topic question of real analysis was asked in the main site by a new user. One user sent, 1 hour later, a long answer going far beyond the the question, and then, 12 hours later, edited ...
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Unable to delete this post
I have been wanting to delete this post for quite sometime. Unfortunately a user already answered and my reputation is so low that I can’t accept or delete it.
Note my original question is nothing ...
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Updated: Is it time to replace links to the UCDavis arXiv frontend?
This question from March 2020 points out that many questions/answers link to papers at the http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ frontend instead of at the arXiv itself, but that the frontend had been down a ...
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How can I see the line length available for long mathematical expressions in posting on MO?
In typing up a question (or answer) on MO, I try to format a long mathematical expression so that it fits in one line. When I meet with apparent success, as shown in the wysiwyg box underneath the box ...
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How acceptable is prosemirror-math as an editor style for this site?
This is a follow-up to one of the possible answers to the recently-announced changes to the editor.
Prosemirror-math is a math editing framework that allows for direct editing of a rich-text preview. ...
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Nudge: the new Stacks editor has significant implications for this site
You have probably seen already a link, on the Featured on Meta sidebar, to an announcement of an upcoming upgrade to the text editor on Stack Exchange, Opt-in alpha test for a new Stacks editor. As a ...
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Is it possible to temporarily comment out part of a post?
Scenario (true story): after posting something I became doubtful about certain claim there,
so I want to hide it until I clarify my doubts.
Of course I could just move that part to a temporary file, ...
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Vandalism edits by apparently-anonymous users
There is an answer to an old community wiki question that was edited about 45 mins ago to make it sexually explicit, with a second attempted edit pending approval to make it even more so.
I rejected ...
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Any policies around Dead links?
I have been reviewing a lot of older posts (~10 years old) and there are quite a few with links that are either dead or links that point to sites that no longer contain the relevant information that ...
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What to do with links to arXiv front end?
There are quite a few posts which link to some paper at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ rather than directly at https://arxiv.org/
The front for arXiv at UC Davis seems to be down for some time. (I ...
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Suggest edits while over 2000 rep
At 2000 rep, users gain the privilege that edits are applied immediately, and loses the ability to suggest edits. However, sometimes I find that I would prefer to suggest edits and leave it up to the ...
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Compulsive question editing
There is a user that is modifying a lot of question in the last couple of hours, in particular, converting to latex any plain text that he considers that should be in math mode. It is getting annoying ...
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Is it a bad practise to add details (limited) to some one's answer?
A user X answered my (some one else's) question in a compact way (less than $10$ lines).
Upon discussion, user X has explained somethings in comment which made answer clearer.
Is it considered to ...
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Problem with posts and comments relying on macros defined elsewhere
MathJax supports possibility do define macros. (Using \newcommand, \DeclareMathOperator, \def...
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Are edits performed by external, non-SE robots allowed?
During my reviewing of Suggested Edits, I have encountered several of them attempted by user @Glorfindel. Upon closer examination, all were performed by a robot written by him and all consisted of ...
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Deprecating an old link
This question comes from this list of edits: https://mathoverflow.net/posts/86827/revisions
An old answer included a link to a now-deprecated website (which has been taken over by a porn website); a ...
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Misspelling of Cauchy-Schwarz
As a comment of Dennis Serre, the correct spelling of Cauchy-Schwarz is Cauchy-Schwarz (not Cauchy-Schwartz):
The spelling is Cauchy-Schwarz, from Hermann Schwarz. If you are interested in Fourier ...
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Proper protocol for edit wars
In this question, I made an edit to change the formatting because I thought it was inappropriate (related meta discussion).
The author swiftly reverted my edit to restore the original version, ...
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Restriction on Number of edits
Book about fluid dynamics asked Apr 13 '10 edited 1 hour ago
Are there examples of conjectures supported by heuristic arguments that have been finally disproved? asked 21 hours ago edited 2 hours ...
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Restriction on editing closed questions
Guidelines to prove that $2^{\sqrt{2}}$ is a transcendental number? question bumped into https://mathoverflow.net/ after making an edit.
I am not sure if that adds anything to the question.
Should ...
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Is it possible to change the author of a problem on mathoverflow?
By a mistake I have written the problem Is "weakly good" series in a finite-dimensional Banach space "good"? from my account instead of writing it from the account of Lviv Scottish ...
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One more reason to reject an edit: too much alteration
I encountered this now, and have seen it quite frequently before: I would like to reject an edit, and the reason is something between "attempt to reply" and "clearly conflicts with author's intent". ...
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Correcting links with university proxy (especially MathSciNet links)
Let me first say, that I consider links to papers referenced in MO posts a useful things. And so do other users, judging by an older discussion on this topic: Is it worth editing old posts to add ...
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Why can't I edit my own deleted questions?
I recently asked a question, thought about it, decided to delete it, and I wanted to add a short note after deleting it explaining why I removed the question.
It turns out, I couldn't edit the ...
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edits with links to material under restricted access
I have seen several times people editing a post to add a link to an article under restricted access/behind a paywall. By this I mean that the article is on some site requiring a login/payment before ...
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Is it worth editing old posts to add links for references?
I always appreciate when citations to papers in MO answers/questions have a hyperlink — it’s very convenient for the reader, especially in cases where the referenced paper is non-trivial to find.
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Editing an old post to add MathJax
Sometimes I come across an old post which does not use MathJax. Is it OK to edit such a post if the edit improves readability?
This question (and its answers) motivated this post. I know some users ...
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Altering the question in a way that makes an answer obsolete
I've seen that several times: an answer makes OP want to change the question in a way that would damage the answer. Obviously this should not be done. In fact I think it is better to delete the ...
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Autosave of drafted questions or answers
So there I am, typing a new question (or an answer). As it appears $\LaTeX$'ed in the preview frame, I keep improving it... and then I realize that there is some detail I need to think more about ...
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Change a question after counter example
This following question was motivated by this question, though many of similar nature can be found throughout MO.
The Problem: The question asks whether any bound exist on an expression, and ...
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Edit rejected by Community
I recently had an edit rejected by, among others, Community, with the rejection message "This edit did not correct critical issues with the post - view the revision history to see what should have ...
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Time to close this question
Despite promising to stop editing it, the OP has now made his 24th edit to his question
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/208867/eliminating-gibbs-phenomenon-and-approximating-with-jumping-...
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How to discourage excessive self-edits?
My question is prompted by the reappearance of this post on the front page. A glance at the edit history shows that the OP has edited his own question thirteen times. This user has a history of ...
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Should I re-try a rejected edit with modifications?
Generating Classical Groups over Finite Local Rings asks a question that, according to the poster's own 'answer' https://mathoverflow.net/a/19098/2383, is not what was actually meant. I edited the ...
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What is the policy on "shortening titles" on MO?
A MO user (Myshkin) has just edited the title of a question of mine (here) to make it shorter. The old title was:
Ref request: If the natural density (relative to the primes) exists, then the ...
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how to correct an erroneous edit
"Black adder" edited my answer to a question asking for a proof of noether normalization. the edit was nicely done, except in the next to last sentence a change was made from "≤ d" to "less than d", ...
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