Help:Minor edit

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Marking an edit as a minor edit signifies that only superficial differences exist between the current and previous versions. Examples include typographical corrections, corrections of minor formatting errors, and reversion of obvious vandalism. A minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. An edit of this kind is marked in its page's revision history with a lowercase, bolded "m" character (m).

Because editors may choose to ignore minor edits when reviewing recent changes, the distinction between major and minor edits is significant. Logged-in users can set their preferences not to display minor edits. If there is any chance that another editor might dispute a change, the edit should not be marked as minor.

A good rule of thumb is that edits consisting solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of the content should be flagged as minor edits.

How to mark an edit as minor

Below the edit summary field, there is a checkbox that says, "This is a minor edit". Adding a check to this box will mark the edit as minor.

What to mark as minor changes

• Spelling, grammatical, and punctuation corrections (e.g. "Bulbbasur" to "Bulbasaur")
• Simple formatting (e.g. capitalization, or properly adding italics to non-English words, like Fushigidane)
• Formatting that does not change the meaning of the page (e.g., moving a picture, splitting one paragraph into two—where this is not contentious)
• Fixing layout errors
• Adding or correcting wikilinks, or fixing broken external links and references already present in the article
• Removing obvious vandalism

What not to mark as minor changes

• Adding or removing content in an article
• Adding or removing visible tags or other templates in an article
• Adding or removing references/citations, external links, or categories in an article
• Adding comments to a talk page or other discussion

See also

• wp:Help:Minor edit

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