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Clarify and exemplify non-normative changes #225

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Expand Up @@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ Additions to the standard can also be proposed as issues. However, the process f

### Non-normative issues

Changes of editorial nature can be made, accepted, or rejected by the editor without discussion.
Changes of editorial nature, or which only impact non-normative text, can be made, accepted, or rejected by the editor without discussion.

The same applies for changes which are (in the editor's judgement) obvious bug fixes, where the standard failed to reflect the clearly-intended behavior in its normative text.

EXAMPLE: Some representative cases of such "obvious bug fixes" are [restoring an accidentally-deleted step](https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9980), [correcting a value to match the declared IDL type signature](https://github.com/whatwg/urlpattern/pull/213), or [passing a value through the algorithms that expect it](https://github.com/whatwg/streams/pull/1300).

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