Questions tagged [edit-summary]
Short reason, count of characters changed or motive behind why a post was edited
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"Comment reserved for system use" when trying to edit with an edit summary
Trying to leave an edit summary gives me this error message:
Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment.
This occurs both for anonymous and logged-in edits, for answers and ...
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There is no moderation for edit summaries
Editing summaries aren't peer reviewed, moderated or otherwise subject to the protections that posts and comments are. Therefore they can sometimes become snarky and harmful. Should an otherwise-...
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Translation for "comment edited" in revisions not used
When moderator makes an edit of description for post edit there's additional part in revisions page for that revision:
String is translated in Traducir, but for some reason not used.
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The edit summary field is being treated as password field on Chrome for Android
I'm on Chrome 110 on Android 10, and I'm seeing the key symbol indicating I'm in a password field when I'm on an edit summary field:
That seems wrong.
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Remove minimum length restriction when moderators edit a revision comment (a.k.a. edit summary)
A moderator can edit a post's revision comment (a.k.a. edit summary). However, when the text is too short, they get an error message that says:
Your edit summary must be at least 10 characters.
On ...
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Why does the edit summary have an appended whitespace in some places?
The edit summary is appended with a whitespace character in the user profile's revision list.
When I've needed to copy-paste an edit summary I've ended up taking the extra work to not select the ...
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Should the default edit summaries be in sentence case?
I'm not entirely au fait with the site's inner workings so I'm not sure if this is a bug, feature-request or if it's actually status-bydesign, hence the open question.1
The default edit summaries are ...
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Custom rollback reason not displayed on the Activity page
When providing a custom rollback reason, it displays properly when looking at the timeline and revision history, but not the Activity page ("All Actions" or "Revisions"). Compare:
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What is 'Active Reading' meant to imply in the edit reason field?
I've noticed a few times the phrase 'Active Reading' in the edit summary, such as on this revision:
Active reading [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnePlus_5 http://stackoverflow.com/legal/trademark-...
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Improve Community bot replacement edit summary
In the context of the Community bot URL replacement run addressed in 'Links to HTML versions of RFC's need to move from "tools" to "datatracker"' it became clear that the ...
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Editing of revision's title is not applied [duplicate]
I edited a question and made a typo on the revision's title itself.
When trying to edit this revision to fix this typo in the revision's title, the update is not applied when clicking on Save Edits ...
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Edit summary no longer autofills [closed]
Normally when I edit a question and I'm filling in the edit summary, I get a menu of summaries that I've used previously as autofill suggestions.
Today I'm no longer getting them. I made two changes ...
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Can I get a diff of my changes before submitting an edit?
When editing a post I usually want to write a concise summary (especially when suggesting an edit).
This would be much easier if I was able to get a diff for my changes. Sometimes editing a post ...
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Adding summary to tag-only rollback doesn't work
It's possible to add an edit summary to a rollback:
Could we be permitted to provide a reason for rolling back?
However, this doesn't seem to be working when you rollback a tag-only edit. Here is a ...
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Can the edit summary be changed by users doing an additional edit from edit review? [duplicate]
I have observed a few times that, when I suggest an edit and that edit is accepted by someone else, but they add a further edit, then they seem to duplicate my edit summary in their own edit. However, ...
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