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::::I object to you rewriting this with a misleading edit summary that said you did a copyedit. The changes are too numerous to detail. Rewriting this lacks consensus. "Although copy editors are generally expected to make simple revisions ... , they do not have a license to rewrite a text line by line". Just do a diff listing to see how much you changed. [[User:MB|<b style="color:#034503">MB</b>]] 05:57, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
:::::[[Copy editing]] is generally understood as rewriting text to improve its readability without substantially changing its meaning. That is what I did. I'm sorry if you found the edit summary misleading, but what am I supposed to do about that now, three days and four reverts later? I will try to rephrase my question again: what changes would I have to make, for you to be happy with the edit you have chosen to revert? – [[User:Joe Roe|Joe]] <small>([[User talk:Joe Roe|talk]])</small> 06:08, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
::::::You quoted the broad introductory sentence from an article, but seem to have ignored my quote from the same article which put limitations on that - {{tq|simple revisions ... [not] rewrite a text line by line}} which I believe is aligned with the interpretation of copyediting held by the majority of the community. If I write "the author has written half a dozen books" and you change it to "the author has written six books", that is just a different way of saying the same thing. It is a stylistic change. Both are correct, you may think your way improves readability, but that would be just your opinion. If a such a stylistic change is disputed, the original version stands unless you can get a consensus to change it. You have provided no justification to make any changes, other than you seem to like your version better. {{noping|Pppery}} saw one small area to improve and made a minor change. {{noping|HouseBlaster}} has one specific concern which we are discussing, and said in general "It looks fabulous! " (that is in the archive if you don't believe me). Neither of them has called for a large rewrite. No one here agrees with you. This is really becoming [[WP:Disruptive]]. I wish you would drop this and [[WP:Listen|move on.]] [[User:MB|<b style="color:#034503">MB</b>]] 19:21, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
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