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Happy editing! HiLo48 (talk) 22:57, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

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I appreciate your enthusiasm for minor cleanup; I too am mostly a WP:GNOME, as we say. However, I think you should get more familiar with our WP:Manual of Style. Very little of this group of changes you made was actually constructive.
 * We do not do . That's redundant, and   is the correct markup. See MOS:LINK and WP:PIPE.
 * Changing  to   is not at all helpful; the presence of the capital letter (on something that isn't a proper name) is a strong visual signal that a piped link has been used, without having to scan it character by character to see if it is one. Such a lower-casing twiddle waste other editors' time down the road.
 * Changing to  is pointless WP:MEATBOT stuff. Neither style is better or preferable than the other, and it just triggers other editors' watchlists about edits that do not improve the encyclopedia.
 * Same goes for changing  to   or vice versa, for any reason other than making one or a couple of headings match the style of all the rest of the headings in the page. Neither style is required/preferred. You actually made that one inconsistent with the others, seemingly on purpose, which is counterproductive.
 * Changing  to   is not actually helpful in most cases; we have a guideline against doing this unless for certain specific reasons: WP:DONTFIXIT.  There was nothing wrong about "Sportsperson" as the target term. (In this particular case, which you probably didn't know about, there is also perennial debate about splitting that page, and having athlete go to a more limited-scope article, with sportsperson being the broader topic, since the term athlete is primarily used in reference to athletics / track and field, not all sports, except also applied by some Americans to all sportspeople, a habit picked up from collegiate football. It's not a usage that agrees well with our MOS:COMMONALITY principle.)

Lest this sound entirely criticial, it useful to replace   with. Same with alphabetizing the "See also" section. That being a navigation feature, it's also an exception to DONTFIXIT; the change from List of U.S. and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises to List of American and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises is what to do here (especially since "U.S." is discouraged in favor of "US" anyway, except in contexts, like the U.S. government, for which the dotted spelling remains dominant). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:17, 13 July 2018 (UTC)