I don't do a lot of editorial photos for micro, but there are plenty of skylines that are considered editorial shots (and many not in editorial)- mainly because of the buildings contained in the shot. You are best to clone away any names on buildings and logos where they are readily visible - also any billboards or ads on buildings - and if there are no buildings considered trademarked you can submit it without the editorial tag. If there are buildings that are trademarked, they shouldn't be the main component of the shot, just part of the overall skyline, and those should be editorial.
Noise - well that hasn't changed much over the past six months - on SS the standards are still 0% noise. The same for things like artefacting and fringing (C/A) - there seems to be very little tolerance. Sharpness levels - well I'll admit that I've seen a lot of stuff accepted lately that doesn't look very sharp to me, yet it's accepted - much of it I wouldn't even have submitted if it were mine. It's really very hard to say because it is dependent on the reviewer - what gets rejected one time may get accepted a week later by another reviewer.
In submitting photos I follow my own standards - is it sharp enough to suit me? If not, it doesn't get submitted. I guess for me it's not about what they'll accept...I am more concerned about the quality that has my name on it.
I'm afraid I can only give you the info for SS; I don't submit to the others you asked about.
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