Hi @smashedliam,
First off, thank you for helping us to patrol user edits! It really makes a difference when we have others helping to evaluate the suggestions we get. I think can help with this question.
The reputation limit for that particular device page is set to it’s upper limit–meaning, to ''actually change'' anything you have to be an admin (employee of iFixit) or a moderator (like @jayeff). Some device pages are set to a lower amount, often 500. The reputation limit is a measure to make an actual change rather than a suggestion. So if there was a limit of 1,000 reputation on *Random Device Repair Page* you, logged into your account, would be able to make the changes you see fit whereas someone with 800 reputation can suggest a change to be reviewed later (which will be either approved or denied).
We get a lot of different types of edits. They will fall into the following categories:
* Genuine improvements from knowledgable people
* Educated guesses that can be correct or incorrect
* Confused people looking for something else (in this example, maybe the person was trying to see the device page for the Samsung S8 Plus)
* Spammers
As Apple device pages are used extremely frequently, we’ve found it useful to only allow for admin and identified moderators to approve suggested changes to thwart spammers and incorrect information. The banner letting you know that you’re looking at an unverified version is the buffer to let users know that something has been changed and a trusted resource (mods/admin) has not had a chance to review it just yet. Between all of us moderating, things are typically handled relatively quickly.
I think I hit all of the questions with this. If I miss anything or if you have any more questions, let me know!
