[WikiEN-l] Most useless edit summary ever?

[Charlotte Webb]

On 10/18/07, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> One thing about the whole RfA culture I've had trouble understanding is
> that the assertion that edit summaries are more important in major than
> minor changes.

If an edit is truly "major", then the changes will probably be too
numerous to explain in the edit summary, so the cynical conclusion is
that any comment would be considered inadequate. Ergo, might as well
leave it blank.

—C.W.