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Date	Process	Result
January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Kept
March 6, 2005	Featured article review	Demoted

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API Documentation vendors

Latest comment: 3 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion

In the section on APi documentation vendors, it would be helpful to list out the major vendors of API documentation software. Thesourceonline (talk) 19:01, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

No, it would not, since per WP:NOT we should not be making lists of vendors. MrOllie (talk) 19:06, 20 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

yes I also agree with you ~2026-25139-91 (talk) 16:53, 24 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 22 April 2026

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~2026-24763-61 (talk) 15:36, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@~2026-24763-61 Why? {{Starwin7 (talk) 15:38, 22 April 2026 (UTC)}}Reply

Not done: Blank edit request. Day Creature (talk) 15:53, 22 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

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API Documentation vendors

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