[Wikipedia-l] Minor changes

[koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com]

Ortolan88:
>>Some thoughtless people (readers of this list, I believe) are even
>>putting moves from a private chess game into Recent Changes for
>>reasons unfathomable to polite people.

Toby:
>Everything goes into Recentchanges, every edit whatsoever.
>What you mean is that these thoughtless (I agree) people
>aren't marking the moves as minor edits.
>If they did so, then people who (like you) hide minor edits
>wouldn't see the game show up in Recentchanges,
>although people who (like me) don't hide minor edits
>would continue to see it (a risk that we choose to take).
>
>I hope that this clarifies my language.

Yes, it does.  Another issue is of course--why are people playing
chess on wikipedia when there are so many other places to play it? 
Yes, I agree that people should have some latitude in regards to what
they put on their own userpages, but that borders on the ridiculous.

kq