Inconsistency between "Accounts" and "Transactions" doc pages

[ckoopmann]

Describe the bug

On the documentation for "accounts" it says:

An Ethereum account is an entity with an ether (ETH) balance that can send transactions on Ethereum. Accounts can be user-controlled or deployed as smart contracts.

This sentence implies that smart contract accounts can send "transactions", which contradicts the definition of "transaction" on the corresponding doc page:

An Ethereum transaction refers to an action initiated by an externally-owned account, in other words an account managed by a human, not a contract.

It seems the term "transaction" is used incorrectly on the accounts page so I'd suggest replacing it with an alternative such as "call" or "message" .

To reproduce

1. Read doc page regarding accounts
2. Read doc page regarding transactions

Expected behavior

Terms should be used consistently across the documentation pages.

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[corwintines]

Thanks @ckoopmann. I agree, this could use some updates. I think what is on the accounts page is correct from what you shared. I think the transactions page. Transactions can be submitted by both smart contracts and EOA's, so this should be updated.

I see you put you are interested. I will assign this to you :) Let me know if you need anything.

[wackerow]

Hey @ckoopmann! Just checking in, any update here? Any way we can help?