IrlSmith

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Hello, IrlSmith. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by Nick Moyes (talk) 18:59, 23 October 2019 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).

Help me!

I edited a page having a "dubious -- discuss" tag on it. The tag referred to a numerical value which was off by some four orders of magnitude. I corrected the value, left a comment on the page in angle brackets with !--, and then had to decide what to do about the tag. I just deleted it. Is that appropriate? The value as amended is no longer, in my opinion, dubious.

IrlSmith (talk) 19:42, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

If you feel that a maintenance tag is no longer applicable, you generally can remove it, but you should be prepared to defend your edit if asked. Also, please only use one method to seek assistance(i.e asking at the Teahouse or using a help me tag) to avoid duplication. 331dot (talk) 19:55, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

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