Questions tagged [wording]
For the suggestion of improvements to the phrasing of text shown to users by the Stack Exchange engine.
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New spam dashboard can't count (there are five statuses, not four)
The recent auto-flagged spam dashboard has counting issues:
This info box pops up from the "i" icon next to "Status". There are very clearly five possible statuses. Please change &...
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Change "no" to "insufficient" in predefined flag decline reason of "Declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it"
As indicated in this answer, one of the standard, predefined responses available to diamond Moderators when declining a flag is:
Declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to ...
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Moderator message sidebar says it's from "Stack Overflow moderators" even on non-SO sites
I am a diamond moderator on Puzzling Stack Exchange. When I go to read a moderator message thread, the sidebar box titled "What is a moderator message?" starts:
This is a private, ...
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The experiment opt-out help center page should probably say "Stack Exchange" instead of "Stack Overflow"
There's a page in the Help Center about how to opt out of experiments: /help/experiment-opt-out. Its title is "How do I opt out of experiments on Stack Overflow?" and it starts with the ...
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Remove the 'pipe delimited' from a tag merge log message which isn't pipe delimited
I just did a tag rename which ♦ moderators can do by merging an existing tag into a non-existent one. There's some confusing output in the results page; this time I'm confused by the 'pipe delimited':
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Update 'Favorite Tags' filter to reflect that the feature is now called 'Tag Watching'
On stackexchange.com, there's an overview of all recent questions in all the tags you're watching across the network. That filter is called 'Favorite Tags' but that feature has been renamed to 'Tag ...
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Confusing sentence in list of chat rooms: "A list of all chat rooms on The Stack Exchange Network by the community"
The "All" tab for any chat network (e.g. SE Chat) has at the top:
A list of all chat rooms on <The Stack Exchange Network / Meta Stack Exchange / Stack Overflow> by the community. ...
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Show extent of modification on the question list
In a list of questions, we currently show something like
[username] [rep] [asked|answered|modified] [when]
There have been a number of requests to annotate minor edits to keep them from bumping the ...
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Improve the wording about the election start date in the template for Question Collection questions
There are two elections coming up early July, and here are the Question Collection questions posted on their meta sites:
2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection (Astronomy.SE)
2025 ...
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"Your image is too large to upload (over 10 MiB)" for an image that is exactly 10 MiB
Bug: I'm getting "Your image is too large to upload (over 10 MiB)" for an image that is exactly 10 MiB (not over 10 MiB).
Your image is too large to upload (over 10 MiB).
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Explicitly suggest searching for answers, not just asking a new question, at the bottom of the page
There appears to be a new feature adding two boxes below the question/answers on a question page. One box suggests to "Find the answer to your question by asking" while the other provides ...
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Change "There are no questions tagged <X>" to "The <X> tag does not exist"
If a tag doesn't exist, then attempting to search for it results in a page stating that no questions have that tag:
There are no questions tagged web-hosting. View available tags for this site.
That'...
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Settings "When you flip this switch" language problem
There is a "Settings" page available in your profile page. Some of the setting descriptions start with "When you flip this switch". Maybe "flip" means "enable" ...
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Inconsistency on using comments to "add more information"
If you open the comment box, the grayed-out tooltip text says
Use comments to ask for clarification or add more information [emphasis mine]
However, the faq says
They are not for:
Providing ...
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The term watched tags changed to "Following" which conflicts with the already used followed posts
I noticed that in last few days, the [watched-tags] that was previously shown at the top-left side of the page has been changed to [Following]. This is confusing because we already have something ...
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Has the text describing the Reviewer Stats changed recently? [duplicate]
Has the text describing the Reviewer Stats changed recently? For example: this suggested edit
Currently, it is: "XXXXX has NN edit suggestions approved, NN edit suggestions rejected, and NN edit ...
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Post notice for protected questions is confusing; please rephrase it to make it clearer
The post notice for protected questions currently reads
Highly Active Question. Earn 10 reputation (not counting the association bonus) in order to answer this question. The reputation requirement ...
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If my suggested edit is canceled, there should not be a notice saying my edit is rejected
When I suggested an edit in Mathematics Stack Exchange, my suggested edit was canceled due to “This edit conflicted with a subsequent edit.” By community bot.
Due to my canceled edit, when I click “...
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Change "Hot Network Questions" to "Trending Network Questions"?
The word Hot in Hot Network Questions feels like it carries a sexual connotation.
Should the phrase Hot Network Questions be changed to Trending Network Questions?
Do you think the latter is more ...
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Suggested edit reviewer stats are not formatted properly
Under Reviewer Stats, it says [Username] has [number] edit suggestions approved, [number] edit suggestions rejected, and [number] edit suggestions improved.
Example image:
That sounds like the ...
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The phrase "it is not currently accepting answers" (in close post notices) has nothing to do with "accepting answers"; coherence, please
When a question is closed, a post notice is shown and it states the question "is not currently accepting answers". Example:
This suggests that if the question wasn't closed, it could accept ...
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Please correct helpful flag tooltip in impact box
When hovering over "NN helpful flags" in the Impact box on the Activity page, the following tooltip text appears:
Total number of raised flags marked useful
Flags are marked "helpful&...
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New image uploader should have a more descriptive error when you paste in a link rather than a picture
Admittedly, I pretty much tried to fit a square peg into a round hole, but I accidentally used the image upload button instead of the link button when trying to post a link to a question.
Current ...
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Display name can contain full stops, diacritics, and underscores as well - message should mention this
Full stops and underscores should be added to the list below when editing display names.
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Should the "too many pending edits" pop-up be reworded for accuracy (unless rejected edits have no effect on the number pending)?
As per this pop-up, I have maxed out on my pending edits:
For those who cannot read screen images, it says with my emboldenment:
You have too many pending edits. Further edits cannot be submitted ...
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Make the opinion-based closure notice say "is seeking opinion-based answers" instead of "is opinion-based"
When a question is closed as:
Opinion-based
This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers.
…a post ...
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Stack Exchange's style guidelines say to use the Oxford comma, but the Teams notice in the left sidebar doesn't use it
TL;DR - add a comma after "find answers" in the left-sidebar Teams dialog.
In the SOfT dialog in the left sidebar, it says this:
Teams +
Ask questions, find answers and collaborate at work ...
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Why is the "Highly active" label still present even after all activity has ceased? [duplicate]
I was browsing Aviation by top voted, and came across Why does Chicago O'Hare have a penalty box?
Asked and answered in 2014, the most recent activity on this question includes:
3 years ago: an ...
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Misleading banner: A retracted reopen vote means that you can't then vote to close the reopened question? [duplicate]
I found a strange bug the other day.
There was a poorly formatted/asked question, on a site1 (that I am not a moderator of), that I voted to close. It was closed eventually with another two votes (...
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Why is this election summary in past tense even before an election has started?
An election will be held in a couple weeks on Code Review SE. Near the bottom of the main content is an <aside> using past tense wording:
17,568 voters were eligible, 0 visited the site during ...
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Improve wording of Community Wiki tooltip while editing a question
When editing a question as a ♦ moderator, you have the option to make it Community Wiki. However, as a reverse of Mod menu for Community Wiki answer thinks it's a question, the tooltip thinks it's ...
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Mod menu for Community Wiki answer thinks it's a question
When opening the mod menu for a Community Wiki answer, one of the options is
remove wiki from this question
(emphasis mine). Can that be corrected?
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Clarify the values for delete/undelete votes on 10k tools page
There are items with delete/undelete votes on 10k tools page. But the values specified there are not clear:
Actually it's relate to number of votes already given (the first one), and the number of ...
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Cookie settings dialog spells the same word in both American and British English in different places
In the Cookie Settings, specifically under the "Privacy Preference Center" section, I've noticed a discrepancy in language usage related to personalization. The term "personalized" ...
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Ryan's bio description has a first/third person mixup
The bio of Ryan Polk contains mixed references to him, it's partly in first person and partly in third person:
Ryan is Chief Product Officer at Stack Overflow. My role is to grow the product pieces ...
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Can we make the spam flag description more clear?
Currently, the description of the spam flag reads as follows:
Exists only to promote a product or service, does not disclose the author's affiliation.
This wording is very confusing because it's ...
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A couple of typos in the moderator questionnaire
There are some minor bugs in the 2023 Moderator Election Questionnaire:
(e.g. at https://music.stackexchange.com/election)
Question 1 has a grammar mistake:
How would you deal with a user who produced ...
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Drop dot from last item in help dropdown [duplicate]
For the sake of consistency I suggest remove the dot from the last sentence in help drop down from top bar:
All other items from all other menus don't contain dot at the end.
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Normalize strings related to review audit
There is pair of strings related to review audit:
This was an audit, designed to see if you were paying attention. You didn't pass.
This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying ...
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What's the process of changing site description?
Currently all the SO family sites have similar taglines, except SO in Russian:
What's the procedure of changing such taglines for SE sites in general?
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Change wording for Close item in review queue
On low quality posts queue I faced with a weird situation:
Screenshot was translated by Google.Translate
Original strings for Close and Delete look very similar:
This question cannot be fixed and ...
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Do we do more than "frown on" plagiarism?
I just realized that How to reference material written by others reads as follows:
Plagiarism - posting the work of others with no indication that it is not your own - is frowned on by our community, ...
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Improve post-notice for sourceless answers
On questions like this one that have a tendency to be answered by low-rep users who don't cite any sources, mods can add the following post-notice:
Want to improve this post? Provide detailed ...
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Reword the description of the blocklist page on the mod tools list
This recent post clarifies that the <site>.stackexchange.com/admin/blocklist page includes not only fully blocklisted content but also content that generates warnings (such as, for example, ...
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Site email says closed questions are not visible to the public: wrong
The website documentation has been corrected, but this email form letter
is still inaccurate
From: Stack Overflow <[email protected]>
Subject: Your question has been closed
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In election primaries, the voting breakdown tooltip misidentifies election nominations as "questions"
Tooltip on expanded votes on nomination post says the following:
But this nomination notice is not a question!
As far as I see in translation data base this is the one source string (with plural forms)...
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"Report as present" dialog says I'll be marked as "absent" rather than "present"
In the moderator dashboard, there's an option to record yourself as absent / inactive. I did that a couple of days ago, but now I'm back from a holiday and wanted to report myself as present. There ...
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Remove "by" from "deleted by" in timeline
It seems that the "by" word should be removed from the "deleted by" phrase in the post timeline. E.g.:
Since "by" is already placed in the title of the next row in the ...
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Bounty expiring soon and completed simultaneously according to the inbox notification?
Is it normal according to common logic that "expiring soon" bounty "is completed"?
bounty expiring soon
Your bounty on question "Post notice should indicate a self-deletion ...
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Strictly Necessary cookies text: "then" not grammatically correct
When customizing cookie settings, the following is shown under Strictly Necessary (click for bigger/sharper image):
These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly and cannot be ...
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