Christopher-
This may help people who are leery of making too many edits at once, for fear of timeouts or "Contributor conflic", as well as keep the database from growing too much.
Yes, we've discussed this before. I think I have found a solution now that I will probably implement at some point:
Automatically have a checkbox appear after the second edit by the same user to the same page that says "Combine with previous edit"
This checkbox would not be active by default to avoid data loss. But users who make lots of subsequent edits could pick:
User preference: [ ] Combine subsequent edits by default
Combining the edit would simply mean deleting the previous revision. The edit comments could be concatenated.
Regards,
Erik