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Event types: Emphasize that "WatchEvent" is a legacy term that refers to starring #44215

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

WatchEvent is confusingly named for historic reasons. The docs only mention "stars" once, which is easily missed since no other context clues support this meaning.

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

It would be great if the section could include a callout (or at least another sentence) that points out why the event and its action value are named so unintuitively.

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