Is it possible to see who approved an edit? I'd assume it's not but just wondering. Someone's just approved this edit: android.stackexchange.com/posts/16159/revisions which didn't actually fix the spelling/grammar at all. I was in the middle of writing the rejection but someone already accepted it.
At all is incorrect, it did fix 1 spelling and grammar mistake.
I just think if half the changes are dubious (skeptical)/incorrect they shouldn't be approved.
@Izzy because sceptical → skeptical isn't a correction: it's changing British English to US English; the bracket after "Gmail contacts" was correct originally and the edit made it wrong; the new brackets around "My contacts" are wrong in the edit. Generally I don't think it's right to approve "spelling and grammar" improvements that introduce more errors than they fix.
@DanHulme Wait... let me look again: That en_EN 2 en_US I might be excused for (as a non-native). But the other things I need to re-check how I missed the "wrongs" (to not repeat such a mistake). My apologies already now!
Hm, I must have learned it wrong then. To me, the brackets look correct in the edit. The only thing I wouldn't 100% approve is the removed "thinking break" ("..." in "means just that... apps can't use it to run any faster").
Btw, @DanHulme: Thanks for your thorough answer on the Backup issue! Just +1 and "accept" for now. Have to read it again on the weekend, as right now I'm already running late. You're right, that might deserve another bounty :)
@Izzy The punctuation round brackets goes so that it would still be correct if the bracketed section were removed entirely (so in this case, the full stop goes outside, because you would still need a full stop without this section).
In future, don't forget that there are other reviewers too: if you're not confident about a spelling and grammar edit, you can skip to leave it for others.
@Izzy The ... there should be a colon, really, but I wouldn't edit just to change that, because it's more a writing style thing. I don't believe in making grammar and writing style changes if the original post is sufficiently clear.
@Izzy @Izzy I meant the revision before that sorry, I added the links and changed the grammar/spelling back to the correct form :) And @DanHulme has the brackets explanation spot on.
The 'thinking break' is called an ellipsis and people seem to really overuse them on this site for some reason, are they focussed on when you're taught English in schools? As far as I recall I was never explicitly taught them, I just had to Wikipedia there proper usage for example as I'd never heard of them as 'thinking breaks', only seen them used instead of omitted words, but apparently they can be used to indicate thought. Learn something new everyday.
@Peanut Oh -- so I can pledge "not guilty", goooood! Yeah, I approved your edit, not the other one. And @DanHulme @Peanut the previous one (which was not approved by me) I had never approved that way, but at least improved (the links at the end would have brought that up, at least, if not the other bracket stuff etc). Comparing the two, I now see the points Dan made: the only thing I had missed there would be the en_EN<->en_US thingy.
@Peanut full ack, same for me. I was taught them as ... something left out. (Read: "I was taught them as, well, hm, something left out :)
I'd say "Is there any android device which is using PIN connection for miracast? " is shopping but "Or is there any setting to set our android application to use PIN connection?" is on-topic perhaps? Maybe ask for an edit.
@Peanut That's why I neither flagged nor VTC'd it. Rephrased to "How can I use PIN connection for Miracast?", the shopping part would be out. Which still leaves the question whether it's OT as "development question", as the background is I am developing a player. Guess I drop a note there.
@Peanut I don't think it's particularly this site. People use them a lot in informal writing, such as on the Internet. The dash used to be the default "I know there should be some punctuation here but I'm not sure what" mark, but the ellipsis is more common now, probably because it's easier to type on most soft-keyboards.
MHL is a new wire protocol, using very clever signalling technology to use very few wires to transmit a lot of data: 1080p video, 7.1 channel surround sound, and RCP remote control data. MHL also uses the existing power lines on USB to allow the TV to power the connected device.
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I was thinking after last night's answer: it would be possible to write a root app that provides a GUI to the backup system. It would let you switch transports, find sets, find the packages with data backed up in each set, and restore packages.
@Izzy why in a month? are you waiting on one of the "logged in every day for ... " badges?
@DanHulme No, those I've got already (and being at "260 days consecutive", nothing more to be expected). The month is just an estimate from things where questions getting starred, upvoted, favorited, or visited. some should approach the "Famous question" soon, and in a few month there might even be a "stellar question" with some luck :)
@DanHulme Missing tag-wiki I'd say. And I guess the original intention was "to get out of bed in the morning" type alerts. Several of the current questions could in fact be re-tagged to notifications.
I saw you retagged a few questions. After last night's answerathon I'm afraid I'm off to bed now. I'll have another look first thing in the morning. It's best not to edit too many at once anyway, to avoid swamping the front page.
Yeah. Some of the recent edits were somehow my fault (well, not really, but...)
I just approved a tag wiki which made sense, and then realized my error (and the error of the tag-wiki creator): He described something existing, but none of the questions matched that (check quickkeys, which is an app -- and quick-settings, which is what the questions referred to). Ouch.
Lesson learned: Check at least the first page of questions tagged thus before approving a tag-wiki edit #/
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