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Tag wiki (figurative) review queue depth (and maybe a favor)

In two days it will be three weeks since I posted about the firefox-addon-sdk tag and suggested edits to the wiki. There was some discussion (now deleted, presumably by moderators) in the comments ...
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Why was I asked to Review an edit by a user with higher rep than I have?

I was recently presented with this review in the Suggested Edits queue. I'm not here asking about what the 'right answer' is/was (the edit was a simple 'correction' from a "\" to a "/") - more curious ...
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Why can't I "improve" a tag wiki edit?

I just did an edit review for a tag wiki edit: https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/23960864 I rejected the edit, because I understood that the tag wiki should describe the project, not ...
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After 5 days the edit has not been peer reviewed

On September 1st edited "About" section of tag zedgraph, however after 5 days it still shows as "This edit will be visible only to you until it is peer reviewed". Is there something I can do to ...
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Only optionally show tag wiki edits in suggested edit reviews [duplicate]

I fell into the same trap as @Trix (7 day ban for plagiarism found in tag edit review) and just read the Stopping tag wiki plagiarism, Part II: Taking Action message @Trix' answer was marked a ...
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Can we have some care when reviewing wikis edits? How can we improve our wiki edits?

There's been a fair bit of attention to tag wiki plagiarism Let's stop tag wiki plagiarism Stopping tag wiki plagiarism, Part II: Taking Action This post is about improving the quality of our ...
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I'm banned from review. What should I have done instead?

I am banned from review. No problem, but I want to learn from my mistake so that I won't do the wrong thing again in the future. Ban message: Your review on https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-...
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Same changes in tag wiki excerpt and tag wiki but only one got approved

I made an edit in the tag wiki for exceldatareader and removed the end date (changed '97-2007 to '97-) since the official docs doesn't say anything else than it works for '97 and onwards (I tried it ...
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Why was this descriptive tag excerpt rejected?

Came across a question today that although using a technology I was familiar with some of what they were doing wasn't familiar to me and after a bit of digging identified they were also using ...
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Stopping tag wiki plagiarism, Part II: Taking Action

tl;dr: It's time to stop letting people add stolen content to our site's tag wikis. Reviewers are letting this through, so let's start with the reviewers. These users are reviewing incorrectly and ...
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Converting keywords to tags within tag wiki: acceptable?

I've come across multiple tag wiki edits (sample) that simply convert keywords into tags. I personally see little value in converting keywords to tags, but that may be valuable to other users. Are ...
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What can we do about incorrect tag wiki edits that get approved?

I was going back over my review history and found that I had voted contrary to the majority on this edit to the objective-c tag wiki excerpt. Now anybody who has developed iOS apps in any language ...
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When reviewing tag wiki suggested edits, allow reviewers to supply a link to copied source, which the system can compare against, and act on

Sorry that the title's a mouthful; hopefully it will be clearer here. When reviewing tag wiki suggestions, I notice that copied content gets approved over and over again . It sure feels like very ...
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Tag wiki rendering is not the same as the "rendered output" shown in the edit review

I was just going through the review queue and picked up this suggested edit to the "field" tag wiki: https://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/5909137 I wondered why the editor thought they ...
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Option to "Improve" a suggested edit to a tag wiki entry?

When reviewing suggested edits to tag wiki entries, I sometimes come across cases where the bulk of the edit is legitimate and helpful, but there are additional improvements that would be trivially ...
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