rose.parks@att.net wrote:
Brion - you have yet to respond to everybodys' answers.
Congratulations, you all win a cookie!
Seriously though, while it's very tempting to try to use a technical solution on things like this it, unfortunately, isn't a technically tractable problem. Small textual changes can have huge significance (including really bad vandalism) while small changes of meaning can appear very large to the computer (for instance moving a couple paragraphs around).
The minor edit checkbox isn't an iron-clad guarantee; it's just a "hint" to other contributors, the machine-readable equivalent of putting "spelling fix" or "formatting fix" or such in the edit summary. It's unfortunate I think that many people take it _very very seriously_, and I don't know why they do.
-- brion vibber (brion @pobox.com)