I also have seen several instances of commas preceding the words " but " or " and " where the word begins a dependent clause, and those should be removed, since commas should only be placed before a conjunction that begins an independent clause or a parenthetical clause.
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I don't care if she removes serial commas outside of quotations but I do care when she removes " all " the commas, which renders sentences unreadable if the commas separate a parenthetical clause or two items in a list ( " Probyn Montagu " as opposed to " Probyn, Montagu " ) or alters direct quotations . talk ) 08 : 50, 5 July 2008 ( UTC)