> The whole encyclopedia is built out of this kind of hyper-focused nerding over details. Absolutely not. It's built out of people writing useful and informati

> The whole encyclopedia is built out of this kind of hyper-focused nerding over details. Absolutely not. It's built out of people writing useful and information articles, not pedantic editing over personal language bugbears. > These changes don’t make your day worse. It shows up in people's watchlists and potentially dozens or hundreds of people will need to verify this change; it introduces edit conflicts, it invalidates drafts people were still working on. It absolutely adds work for other editors, and that's fine even for smaller changes (I have many small changes myself) if it actually improves the article, but all of this amounts to little more than "I don't like it".