Editing - Grammar With Answers

[Kassim Sin]

Iroutinely clean up questions by fixing titles, tags, question grammar, and code formatting. I also routinely add a ! before an image link to make the image visible when viewing the question. This is typically needed when editing a question from a newer user.

When I come across such images while cleaning up the rest of the post, I have been fixing everything I can except I leave such images as links. I then post a comment explaining that pictures of text should be replaced with the actual text.

My question is whether it is best to leave links to images of text as links or should I add the ! before the link so the image is seen inline? I feel that making such images visible is kind of rewarding the OP for bad behavior (posting image of text instead of actual text). I'll post the comment either way so they understand the need to replace the image. But does it help or hurt to leave such images as links versus making such images visible inline?

Do not inline the image if the question is a duplicate. It is highly unlikely that edits will make it not a duplicate without radically changing the question. Duplicates need to work as signposts, and fixing them to be answerable is not a priority since they will not receive separate answers. If the question as written could not stand by itself without the image, then it will most likely not function as a good signpost, and should be deleted later.

Please also vote or flag the question for closure as appropriate. It is not a conflict of interest; on the contrary, you are cooperating with OP to fix the post with the grammar/formatting fixes.

If something is unclear and you can't figure it out, leave that alone in editing and instead give specific, detailed feedback as to what needs to be clarified. Similarly if information is missing: describe what is missing, as it may not be obvious to the OP.

For older questions, check the answers and see if they are dependent on exact code in the image. If not, it would generally be better to construct an artificial example of the problem. Answers should be edited anyway such that they avoid a discussion-forum tone and address the general form of the problem, rather than OP's exact circumstance.

If it's a relatively "important" question (high scores on questions and answers, high view count, high inbound links, etc.) and both the question and answers need work (especially if answers were written corresponding to code in the image), consider soliciting help on Meta or in the chat rooms.

Showing the image inline makes the problem more obvious to other curators, and allows them to give the OP more specific feedback - by linking them to Why should I not upload images of code/data/errors?. This is especially important in cases where OP messed up the syntax badly enough that there isn't even an image link - it's easy for others to overlook that there was any attempt to show code (or an error, etc.) at all.

I have been pretty much going on an editing spree for answers with poor grammar. I want to make sure that it is allowed, since it is telling me I have too many pending edits and now I'm worried... In particular, is this considered spam?

Please don't bulk edit old posts (*). One of the central concepts of the stackexchange site is that edited posts are bumped to the top of the active question page. This normally allows users to easily see if there are posts with new activity, for example if an OP has clarified their question or a post got a new and interesting answer.

Language edits aren't that exciting to see in the active question list. It is understandable that a post here or there might be improved with an edit and that's a nice thing to do. However if done in bulk, they will take over the active question list and re-direct the focus away from posts, which actually need the attention.

If a post is already on the top of the active question page, editing is normally OK. Just keep in mind that as long as you are below 2000 points, 3 people will have to review your edits. So make sure you write understandable edit summaries to make their job easy and take a second to check if your edit is actually useful for the post before causing work for 3 reviewers.

In my opinion the posting is the "baby" of the author and if something needs to be done, it is up to the author in first place. Therefore I prefer suggesting edits to the author of a post via chat or comment to doing the edit oneself.

I know that suggesting edits via comments is not 100%ly in line with the company's policy regarding comments. Therefore, nowadays part of my commenting-policy is that I delete comments of mine myself when I realize that they turned obsolete. ;-)

From time to time with postings of mine I experience someone editing in order to make the text more readable. As English is not my first language I usually am thankful for that. In cases where the gist of the explanation gets distorted/turned into s.th. wrong, I undo the edit and add a note about the subtlety of why the attempt of explaining in the way of the one who edited would yield s.th. wrong. I do so as that info might lead to a better understanding.

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Editing exercises are included in English workbooks in schools to build a good grammatical foundation in students, preparing them for formal communication by developing sentence structuring and editing skills. Editing exercises generally comprise a short passage which is divided into small sentences. Each of these sentences has a misfitting phrase or word which requires editing. Students are supposed to identify and rectify the error, following the process throughout the passage.

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I usually suggest edits if the question has a lot of grammatical mistakes along with improper presentation of code. I tend to ignore suggesting an edit for grammatical corrections only since I have observed very little grammatical suggestions taking place on the site from the day I joined.

Yes, edits that significantly improve a post are always welcome! That improvement can come either by way of fixing formatting, correcting spelling/grammar mistakes, clarifying a title, and adding omitted tags.

But if a post only has grammar problems, then an edit that fixes those is still welcome. In other words, a post does not have to be completely broken or unreadable in order to benefit from an edit. If you can improve the post in a noticeable way, then you should suggest an edit.

This is all covered in the Help Center. In brief, all content here is collaboratively edited, which helps to maintain its high quality. Whenever you see a post that can be improved by editing, please do so.

It is hard to give more specifics (although if you search around on Meta, you'll find lots of attempts), but one good test is if your edits are being approved by the community. If you are making edits that the community finds beneficial, then you're doing the right thing. If you start having your edits rejected, pay attention to the rejection reasons. If you don't understand why an edit was rejected, even after doing a little research, ask about it specifically on Meta.

Here's an example. Many developers confuse JSON with a JavaScript object literal. While closely related, they are not the same thing. I saw a question a while back that asked something about JSON, but it turned out the question actually involved object literals, not JSON.

Someone edited the question to change "JSON" to "object literal" throughout. On the face of it, that sounds like a fine idea. After all, the question is now more specific and correct about what it's asking.

But the problem is that now the question will no longer be found by people who mistakenly search for JSON when they should be searching for "JavaScript object literal". And that's a fairly large group of developers.

If you do make an edit like this to correct some terminology, give some thought to whether it's just a completely off the wall mistake that other devs are unlikely to make, or whether it may be a more common mistake like this one.

If there's even the slightest chance that other people may search using the "mistaken" terminology, and you still want to correct the question, keep both terms in the question. It should be easy enough to do that, even as a footnote. That way people who search for the wrong term may still find the question.

This is also why "duplicate" questions are so valuable and shouldn't be deleted merely because they are duplicates. Even if the question has been asked and answered before, it won't have been asked in the exact same way. There may be some keyword, some bit of context in the duplicate that wasn't in the original, and that will help searchers find their way to the answer.

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