Original sentence: Many writers (especially academic music theorists and musicologists) consistently classify the other variants of the minor scale – the melodic minor (ascending form) and the harmonic minor – as non-diatonic, since they are not transpositions of the white-note pitches of the piano.Many writers (especially in musical pedagogy or otherwise engaged in practical music outside of acacdemia) consistently include those scales as diatonic
Edited sentence: A smaller number of writers consistently include those scales as diatonic.Many writers, especially music theorists, musicologists, and others in academia, consistently classify the other variants of the minor scale – the melodic minor (ascending form) and the harmonic minor – as non-diatonic, since they are not transpositions of the white-note pitches of the piano