There's not really much of a rule, except that if you make a change that you KNOW is really big or controversial and mark it as minor, you're going to tick off the NPOV umpires.
The only other thing, which is I think why there's a check box for "minor edit" in the first place, is that a lot of people don't want to see minor edits: the "view minor edits" option is off by default.
If you've merely corrected the spelling of they're to their, or fixed a [[broken link] to a [[good link]] -- I might not want to know about it. (Except for the anti-vandalism squad, who keep "view minor edits" on all the time).
Ed Poor
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:54, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
The only other thing, which is I think why there's a check box for "minor edit" in the first place, is that a lot of people don't want to see minor edits: the "view minor edits" option is off by default.
"*Hide* minor edits" is off by default. Logged-in users may, at their option, enable it and hide minor edits.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 21-11-2002, Brion Vibber wrote thusly :
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:54, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
The only other thing, which is I think why there's a check box for "minor edit" in the first place, is that a lot of people don't want to see minor edits: the "view minor edits" option is off by default.
"*Hide* minor edits" is off by default. Logged-in users may, at their option, enable it and hide minor edits.
And new articles marked minor edits are not affected ?
Regards, Kpjas.
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