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The next topic demonstrates what is great about random editing. The 2015 ACC women's basketball tournament is not a subject I have any interest in whatsoever. But you can still help out sometimes.

The article is rated as a stub and is basically a list of tables with content describing a post-season college league women's baseball tournament. It appears to be predominantly the work of a single user Lewisthjayhawk who has, let's say, a colourful history and leave it at that. Not that there is anything wrong with the content which all looks competently put together to my untutored eye.

In fact, the only constitutive work was to add wiki-links to the list of players at the end of the article. A bit of minor editing to take out some white space and a wikilink for an abbreviation that would mean something to an American sports fan but not to me and it was done.

Apart from adding an {{unreferenced}} template to the top of the article as it has not a single reference to the data. If there had been a reference I could have double-checked the Bracket table as it looks like some of the matches are missing. But that could be how it was organised, who knows? I don't like using this template but when there are absolutely no references it is difficult to avoid. If there at least some I will often place it on the Talk page for an article so that editors who are more full-time on the page can take note there, rather than having the flow of the article spoilt by a notice that is often overused by editors who can't even be bothered to do the simple, minor things that I do before slapping a template on the page and walking away without adding even a single helpful edit.

Start to finish it only took 20 minutes, but then I only moved the needle by 94 characters (1.4% of the text).

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