No, it had nothing to do with your PRs.  I am greatly appreciative of the 
work you are doing.

Norm

On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 7:52:51 AM UTC-5, ookami wrote:
>
> I am not sure whether my recent shortenings, a flurry of more or less 
> trivial "improvements", is responsible for the observed behaviour.  As a 
> side effect, these small changes push back other more significant 
> contributions on the recent changes page.  I am fine with the current 
> proceeding, but I feel I should explain why I take this smaller proof 
> challenge so serious.
>
> I have no education in logic, let alone formal logic, so becoming familiar 
> with a new field means climbing a steep learning curve for me. One way to 
> succeed is doing lots of 'homework'.  So generally, I simply prove each and 
> any theorem on my own, without noticing the current proof.  When I compare 
> my result to that of 'prior art', and there is a difference, I either 
> improve my technique, or submit a shortening pull request.
>
> There is some merits to this idea, perhaps not so obvious: The overall 
> structure of a section improves, because important/central theorems slowly 
> bubble up to the front, and duplicated proofs are avoided.  And among a lot 
> of trivial changes there are some jewels, where an unnecessary complicated 
> proof becomes simple.
>
> Wolf
>

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