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According to my list of privileges, I have the privilege of approving tag wiki edits. Which is correct, as my reputation is a little over 1800, while that privilege needs 1500.

Why then is it that the tag wiki edits I made, were sent to the review queue? Examples include this one and this one.

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While you may approve tag wiki edits at 1500 reputation, you need to attain the Trusted User level (4000 rep) to submit them without review queue approval.

Trusted users are allowed to perform trusted actions, including:

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  • Editing tag wikis without needing approval

Thus it takes three users to get a tag edit in, one to submit the edit and two with 1500 rep to approve it. Only a user with 4000 rep can make a tag wiki edit without supervision.

It is this way because everywhere on Stack Exchange, you're given experience seeing what the qualifications are for good contributions before you're given the privilege to freely edit them.

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  • $\begingroup$ Which is weird, because the other privileges don't work this way. Ordinary edits to posts, for instance: anyone can suggest them, and 2k rep brings the ability both to approve them and to make them without needing approval. $\endgroup$
    – Rand al'Thor
    Sep 9, 2016 at 10:12

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