Questions tagged [editing]
For questions about the process of editing, how edits work, and other general inquiries about the edit system, use this tag.
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How to use the inbuilt schematic editor to draw components without the particular name? [closed]
The in circuit schematic tool draws the component's symbol, but it always has a name that goes with it. How do I just use the symbol only? For example, I draw a diode, but it always has 1n437 or ...
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Editing questions/answers
I am sure that every once in a while, editing posts (Q's and A's) are great. The thing I am confused about is that when I edit someone else's post, sometimes there is just 1 thing I have to fix and ...
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I can't edit my old schematics
I have noticed that I can't edit my old schematics because the EDIT button under the schematic doesn't appear after I go into edit mode on my answer. What could be the reason?
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Tag Edit queue is full and has been for several days
Saving Tag Info edits has been showing the error message "The edit queue is full at the moment - try again in a few minutes!" for several days now, which is quite a few minutes.
If this isn'...
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What should I edit in my previous questions?
Two days ago I posted a question and today I am surprised that I can't post again.
In this five years, only one question was downvoted, but its ok.
So I am asking you to help me out to put things ...
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Edits just for style?
Before I revert the changes, I figured I'd ask here, since the editing user has high rep and has generally been very helpful to me in the past.
This edit, seems to be fairly pointless. It changes the ...
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Should a moderator change the meaning of an answer?
In this Q/A, the questioner asked for guidance modelling the self capacitance of a solenoid.
Andy Aka had already answered with a good method for measuring it. I supported this answer, and said so. I ...
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An illegal dyad as a teaching paradigm? [closed]
Should the illegal “master/slave” dyad be used as teaching paradigm to explain the relationship between electronic circuits?
The “master/slave” dyad has been outlawed for centuries, e.g. Slave Trade ...
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Editing Answers
To what extent is editing answers allowable? There is an answer to a question that is almost a link-only answer, but it is a pretty good link.
Would it be OK for me to expand the answer by ...
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Should I edit questions to place a large image below the text?
With new questions I often see a large image at the top and the description and question only below that.
I used to edit these questions to place the text on the top, so you can read that first. This ...
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Why did my suggested edit to improve a good question get rejected?
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/278965
This was the question: Why does decreasing the voltage also decrease the circuit frequency?
It's a good question but was closed ...
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Should the 7805 part number in the title be corrected?
It turns out that the part in the question Generating negative voltage rail using 7805 is a P7805, which is a DC-to-DC converter, not a linear voltage regulator.
I notice that no-one has changed the ...
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Why do edits bump posts to front page
I recently edited a post, https://electronics.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/227123, an noticed that one of the comments was that
Neat, but does not warrant this two year old question to ...
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Rejected blockquote suggested edit
Normally I can understand why edits were rejected, but in this case I can't. Just out of interest, why was this suggested edit rejected?
Maybe it is a matter of taste, but in my mind the edits ...
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What to do when questioner edits question into oblivion?
I have seen variations of this a couple of times, but this particular case is quite blatant.
The questioner went from a somewhat reasonably sounding homework question to something that has no context ...
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