They are waiting there because every single one of them has at least one issue.
The most common issue is your removing whitespace that we added for readability - spaces between asterisks and text in lists, spaces between header markup and header text, and so on.
The second-most common issue is your failure to add a link to the work page when you add an example that names a work.
I for one do not have time to go in and repair the damage that you would be doing if these edits were not held in the moderation queue instead of being applied immediately. If a different moderator chooses to repair your edits, that is the choice of that moderator.
MOD: Please read this wiki's Style Guide before making another edit. Yes, all of it.
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