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The gold standard for editing applies: Will your edit make it better? The problem here is you and I seem to have different ideas of what is better. In my worldview, we're here to help. We don't have to provide double-blind studies for every answer and, again, in my view we don't need to provide academic-level bibliographies and citations. Don't get me wrong, ...

I think with all things the site, it comes back to best judgement. Is it habitual? Does it get fixed if you point it out? When I was handling stuff like that I just inserted the link and dropped in a comment that I edited in a reference. If it's habitual, I'ld stop editing and start dropping in the comments requesting fixes and referencing ...

Your work is appreciated, most of the suggested changes make sense. Though I rejected one yesterday because the change is not helpful. "Network" is a very important part of the text which was not visible anymore in the new text. I have edited the tag wireshark now, you can open its wiki and excerpt history to see the changes I made. I also saw that some of ...

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Summarizing what we chatted about the other day… First, fixing plagiarized wikis is a good thing. Please keep it up. However, that doesn't mean they all need to be replaced urgently. You've been doing a lot of them in quick succession. Pace yourself, take the time to write proper replacement text. If you don't know what the tag is about and can't tell ...