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[Schema Inaccuracy] Wrong media types in rest/gists/comments.md #5869

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Schema Inaccuracy

The media types are wrong on the page https://docs.github.com/en/rest/gists/comments

The docs claim there to be a "base64" encoding, but there is none, and there hasn't been such encoding for more than 3 years, possibly since forever.

Expected

Remove the inaccurate documentation. The base64 feature is not available, and hasn't been available for at least 3 years, possibly has never been available.

Reproduction Steps

$ date --utc && curl --silent -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.base64+json" https://api.github.com/gists/9257657/comments/1221189 | grep body 
Thu  8 Jan 19:20:52 UTC 2026
  "body": "Thanks, Octocat!\n"

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