In a message dated 1/4/2003 4:22:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, krooger@debian.org writes:

think there shouldn't be any "minor edits" flag at all; we have the ability to have the software determine if an edit is "minor"; why not let the software flag a change as minor in the html if only a few bytes have changed? We already do something similar for the links on article pages, where we classify the links according to their size.

Jonathan

Because a minor edit is determined by more than just byte size. Adding one word (such as "not") can change the meaning of an article, but a bot might consider that a minor edit, while a lot of little typo fixes could be missed.

Danny