User talk:Thingol

Rewriting pages

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Also, I noticed there was a note at the top about the article needing to be cleaned up. Thingol (talk) 17:11, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I agree. I guess "better" was the wrong word. I meant "clearer." Some of the writing was very unclear or did not follow the templates in the style guide, so I made it clearer and changed up things which didn't follow the guide.