[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Anons can no longer make minor edits
Erik Moeller
erik_moeller at gmx.de
Sat Jan 4 23:30:00 UTC 2003
> I'm not sure you understand. The M flag on Recent Changes is unreliable
> RIGHT NOW. What is a minor fix to one person may be a major point of
> theology to the next person. One persons raftload of spelling fixes may
> be minor to one person, but important to another. Since the Minor flag
> is essentially meaningless, we wouldn't notice any difference if it just
> went away altogether.
You do have a good point: Minor edits mean different things to different
people. We should try to develop a clear policy for when to mark edits as
minor.
Regards,
Erik
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