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Get rid of the Alphabet Soup of Abbreviations for Minimal, Reproducible Example in the Help Center

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OK, do we really need all this in the Help Center?

This is called creating a minimal, reproducible example (reprex), a minimal, complete and verifiable example (mcve), or a minimal, workable example (mwe).

The use of “reprex” for Reproducible Example was inspired by Jenny Bryan’s reprex package for R.

You may have been told to include an MCVE – Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable examples is what they were referring to. MCVE was also the former name of the page you're reading now, occasionally misspelled as MVCE, before it was renamed to Minimal, Reproducible Example (sometimes called “reprex”, “min-reprex”, “repro” or just “example”).

This text doesn't add any value to the Minimal, Reproducible Example page. It just adds noise and confusion to an otherwise informative article.

I propose a simple change: just strike all of this text from the page.


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