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Gennie Walker
Hey, I hope you are doing well. I wanted to please ask for some advice regarding Gennie Walker. For years, this article was not edited much, however for the past 3 or so week it has been edited almost daily by new users or even users making their first edit(s). Usually I would welcome this, however I have had to revert many of these edits as they have made the article worse by adding incorrect tags, making the wording worse/awkward, making it in-universe, changing "storylines" to "story-lines" and other unconstructive changes. All of the edits have gone towards the lead and none have gone towards expanding the article or putting more real world info (which I am hoping to do at some point before the end of 2024). I hence wanted to ask if you know why this article is getting so many new editors - is it being recommended to new editors to copy-edit or something? Because if so, this is making the article (which in my opinion looks pretty okay grammar and wording wise) worse (and not stable). Again, I am not saying that I do not want new editors to edit it (as any contributions to make the article better would be amazing!!!!) but I think that if this is being advertised as an article to copy-edit then it would make new users believe that the current wording is wrong and needs to be changed. I hence wanted to ask your opinion please? :) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 13:45, 3 October 2024 (UTC)