[WikiEN-l] Most useless edit summary ever?

[Brock Weller]

In all fairness I hate that check box, I mark none of my edits as minor,
because I want them all to show up to everyone who wishes to review them,
and marking it as minor hides it from some users, so I'll say minor edit in
the summary, but I'll also atleast vaguely refer to what I did.

On 10/16/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/16/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 16/10/2007, RLS <evendell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/15/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 10/15/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Now now. Let's be fair: it *could* have been a null edit.
> > > >
> > > > If a "null edit" is what I think it is then shouldn't the summary be
> > > > "didn't make a change"?
> > >
> > > I think the point is "made a change" tells us it *wasn't* a null edit.
> :)
> >
> > Indeed. The summary contained 1 bit (as in, binary digit) of
> > information. Not completely useless, but as close as you can get
> > without being.
>
> I think "minor edit"[1] is beyond useless. I mean, there's a check-box
> for saying that.
>
> [1] e.g.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rypin_County&diff=prev&oldid=162173174
>
> —C.W.
>
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-Brock