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Did the 5-minute "grace period" for editing questions or answers recently change or get removed?

Please refer to this. I made 3 little edits in a three-minute period (timestamps 19:29:41Z, 19:30:48Z, 19:32:08Z). In the olden days, this would be aggregated into one edit for the record. Now it ...
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Title edits to title case

A user has been editing questions, which is generally a good thing and they are a good contributor, but they often edit the question title to title case. This has approximately doubled the number of ...
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why can't i edit this question?

i usually think that i have enough rep to directly edit questions on the SP.SE site. but i cannot edit this question because someone with less rep has an edit in the approval queue. now my "...
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How to correctly write units (second, Hertz) in formulae?

I cannot recommend enough the package siunitx in latex for unit and number formatting. What is the method of choice to write ...
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Minor edits on good, answered questions (to claim partial ownership?) - should it be discouraged?

I've noticed it on two of my posts (1, 2), but I speculate this happens to other posts also. Relatively new users (with no edit rights), make tiny 2-3 word edits. According to the faq: Try to make ...
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Editing somebody else's question to appeal to a broader audience

This is my first time posting on any meta, so sorry if it's an inappropriate question in some way. Before I had edit privileges, I gave a fairly popular answer to this question. A question was, in my ...
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