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Summary

  • Fix 18 typos, grammar errors, and formatting inconsistencies across 11 English documentation files
  • All changes are editorial corrections — no content or meaning changes

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Subject-verb agreement (6 fixes):

  • building-community.md: "debates...distracts" → "distract"
  • getting-paid.md: "project help attract" → "helps attract"
  • getting-paid.md: "in most cases require" → "requires"
  • maintaining-balance-for-open-source-maintainers.md: "parts...energizes" → "energize"
  • README.md: "initial release...were authored" → "was authored"
  • CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md: "Examples...includes" → "include" (aligns with canonical Contributor Covenant v1.4)

Missing words (3 fixes):

  • legal.md: "an example this type" → "an example of this type"
  • maintaining-balance-for-open-source-maintainers.md: "switch off in evening" → "in the evening"
  • docs/content-model.md: "Guides help...It explains" → "They explain"

Punctuation errors (3 fixes):

  • how-to-contribute.md: "said:, " → "said, " (extra colon)
  • security-best-practices-for-your-project.md: removed spurious comma between subject and predicate
  • maintaining-balance-for-open-source-maintainers.md: missing space between sentences

Formatting inconsistency (3 fixes):

  • legal.md: added missing colons after AI and Software Bill of Materials bold labels to match other list items
  • docs/content-model.md: removed double space after hyphen

Other (3 fixes):

  • getting-paid.md: "Github" → "GitHub" (capitalization)
  • leadership-and-governance.md: removed duplicate word "eventually"
  • best-practices.md: "put in...into" → "put...into" (redundant preposition)
  • security-best-practices-for-your-project.md: fixed run-on sentence in conclusion

Test plan

  • All _articles/ files pass the prose linter (node test/prose) with zero issues
  • No content or meaning changes — only editorial corrections
  • CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md fix verified against canonical Contributor Covenant v1.4 text

Fix 18 issues across 11 files including subject-verb agreement errors,
missing words, duplicate words, punctuation errors, and formatting
inconsistencies.
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Amazing, I've probably read this page twenty times and never picked up on these. Thanks!

@ahpook ahpook added this pull request to the merge queue Feb 10, 2026
Merged via the queue into github:main with commit 0ee9daf Feb 10, 2026
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