Steve Bennett wrote:
On 10/20/07, Ray Saintonge wrote:
- Your 3
second change causes a flamewar because someone thinks you're
picking on them.
That's their problem.
It's Wikipedia's problem. If your 3 second contribution causes an
hour of
wasted editors' time, it has a net productivity of -59 minutes and -57
seconds. That's a lot worse than any vandalism.
Only the most enormous bad
faith would stick all that drama on a simple
punctuation or spelling change. Even if that single one character
change leads to someone imagining that they have been picked on it is
totally unrealistic for any editor to be on pins and needles lest
someone be offended by a clearly minor change.
Sure, it's not uncommon for someone to try to deflect attention from a
significant change by marking it minor, but that just means that as many
eyes should be on minor changes as on others, whether or not there is a
summary. I have no intention to start writing long descriptions for
such minor changes, whether Steve likes it or not.
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