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Could you please review history for Shōgun (novel)? Direct link: Shōgun (novel): Revision history - Wikipedia Myrealnamm (💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 00:10, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, I've had a look. Hm. Is there something specific you're referring to? 174.34.200.37's edits perhaps? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:12, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. I mean, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with it, but rewording? Is it necessary? I'm just not sure. I mainly just revert edits and copyedit. Myrealnamm (💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 00:13, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessary rewording, especially when done in many articles at the same time, can be

disruptive. However, looking at the comma duplication removed in Special:Diff/1219473362, the article does seem to have had a need for at least basic copyediting, so I personally wouldn't complain. Also, this appears to be limited to one article at the moment, and that article has three maintenance tags at the top. Each of them adds the article to a maintenance category and invites newcomers, for example through the Task Center and the community portal, to fix issues. As long as the maintenance tags remain at the top of the article, such edits will come more-or-less automatically. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply

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Notice of Administrators' noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard that involves you, regarding an appeal to remove a topic ban and 0RR restriction. The thread is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Appeal to remove topic ban on politics and 0RR restriction. Thank you. Bcmh (talk) 14:07, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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