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Message sent. I mostly outlined a few of the problematic edits, noted my concerned about Bluenose Bowdlerizers, and asked what, if anything, was going on.
Some of the edits don't seem like straight Bowdlerization to me - I mean, "dimwit" may be less offensive than "idiot", but most of the changes seem to be just the editor disagreeing with stylistic choices. I don't think that's quite kosher - if the text uses an idiomatic phrase correctly, changing it just because you don't like it is overriding another editor's stylistic choices just for the sake of it.
Seems almost like a weird species of Bluenose Bowdlerizer with strange standards.
Someone should call them in to see what's up.
Edited by shoboniI'm wondering if there's a name for the kind of editor who makes drive-by edits to change word choices and turns of phrase just because they don't like them?
They're not a bowdlerizer, because bowdlerization is about making a work more child friendly or acceptable for the censors. And they're not grammar nazis either, because they're not correcting mistakes (ore even perceived mistakes), but changing correct usages into some other correct usage which they just happen to prefer.

I'm not exactly sure what's going on here, but I recently looked at my watchlist and saw that ExultantCapon
edited Characters.Nichijou to change the word "fuck" to "hell". I don't necessarily disagree with this change but I took a look at the edit history anyway and noticed a tendency towards changing seemingly inocuous words into other phrases. I've also noticed all of the edits are today.
Examples:
- Ungrateful Bastard - "Hates with a passion" to "annoying as heck"
- GetAHoldOfYourselfMan.Anime And Manga - "came to his senses" to "came to himself" and "didn't want to slap Suzaku back into his senses" to "didn't plan to slap Suzaku into realization"
- UsefulNotes.Japanese Pronouns - Deleted "Conversely, Bulma calls him "anta" and definitely is being rude." Probably justified as natter, but no edit reason was included and a porition of an entry directly below got deleted along with it.
- Characters.Samurai Pizza Cats - "idiots" to "dimwits" (though the word is capitalized so maybe it's a term correction?) and "hair-trigger temper" to "crazy short temper"
Edited by sgamer82