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  • 14:4114:41, 4 July 2024 diff hist −2 Elio Chacón→‎'¡La tengo!': remove unwanted commas. We aren't trying to say that Yo La Tengo are the ONLY band. So we need "Yo La Tengo" to modify "band", rather than being in apposition. Also, edited graf 2 of the section to use Chacón's name rather than a pronoun for the first mention of the paragraph current

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  • 16:3716:37, 29 June 2024 diff hist −13 Atlantic (yacht)It seems clear that the text "(yacht designer)" was not meant to be displayed, in this sentence that already says that Hoyt designed the yacht, but rather as disambiguation in the title of a future article about Hoyt. But how many Frederick Maxfield Hoyts are there? [None, so far, on Wikipedia.] I made the undisambiguated name a link, which a future editor may wish to undo. But, either way, we don't need to explain that the yacht was designed by a yacht designer. current

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  • 15:3015:30, 3 April 2024 diff hist −2 Nautical mile"Such" has no antecedent here. (It's positioned as though it refers to "equator', but it's meaningless to speak of "such an equator"; there's only one equator.) We just mean "so that".

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  • 03:4403:44, 3 March 2024 diff hist +5 Flak-Baitadd missing comma (second of the pair setting off "Maryland"); add missing conjunction (to join the three verbs of which "Flak-Bait" is the subject, namely "lived", "returned", and "lost")

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  • 02:2802:28, 19 September 2023 diff hist −17 Columbia Park→‎Home of the Philadelphia Athletics: Removing the "North" and "West" designations, because they aren't required, since the streets can be named without them, and they contribute no information (the part of 29th Street that meets Oxford must necessarily be North 29th Street). Odd, by the way, that we weren't stipulating "West Columbia Avenue", since there's also an East Columbia Avenue.

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  • 13:3813:38, 21 August 2023 diff hist +4 Deborah Hersman→‎Career: Use subject's name, rather than a pronoun, for the first reference in the section.
  • 13:3713:37, 21 August 2023 diff hist −7 Deborah Hersman→‎Career: It's wrong to say that Hersman was appointed by the "former Secretary of Transportation", because Mr. Foxx was then the serving Secretary. Former officials have no power to make appointments. Are we informing readers that the person who held the office in 2017 doesn't still hold it today? Isn't that what readers would expect? If we head down this road, we'll wind up explaining that former General George Washington defeated former Lord Cornwallis at the erstwhile Battle of Yorktown.

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  • 19:3919:39, 11 August 2023 diff hist 0 Baker Street robbery→‎Prelude: We don't need a second hyphen in the term "second-hand car salesman" because the reader will understand, even without it, that we are talking about second-hand cars rather than second-hand salesmen. Also, we want to be consistent, and we already have an a occurrence of the term "second-hand car salesman", referring to Thomas Stephens.

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  • 01:4001:40, 6 May 2023 diff hist −26 Trading PlacesWe don't have to explain more than once -- probably not even once -- what state Philadelphia is in. It's immaterial to the film, and available (for readers who don't already know, if such there be) at the linked "Philadelphia" article.

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