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Biocrawler:Minor edit

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When editing a page, a logged-in user has the option of flagging the edit as a minor edit. A minor edit to a Biocrawler page is one which most other contributors would agree is minor. When to use this is somewhat a matter of personal preference. The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a "minor edit". A major edit is basically something that makes the entry worth relooking at for somebody who wants to watch the article rather closely, so any "real" change, even if it is a single word, is a major edit. This feature is important, because users can choose to hide minor edits in their view of the Recent Changes page, to keep the volume of edits down to a manageable level.

Users have the option of concealing "minor edits" when they view the Recent Changes page. You wouldn't want to be tricked and miss a significant edit, just because it was marked "minor". So be sure to consider other editors when choosing this option.

Reverts to a disputed page are unlikely to be minor. When a page is disputed, and especially if an edit war is brewing or in full eruption -- then it's better not to mark ANY edit as minor: not unless you're sure that all other users will agree it's minor, like correcting a misspelling.

The reason for not allowing a user who is not logged in to mark an edit as minor is that vandalism could then be marked as a minor edit, in which case it would stay unnoticed longer. This limitation is another reason to log in.

Marking a real change as a minor edit is considered bad behavior, and even more so if it involves the deletion of some text. If one has accidentally marked an edit as minor, make another edit, mark it major, and say "the previous edit was major" in the summary. As a trivial edit must be made for this purpose, just opening the edit box and saving (changing nothing) does not work, neither does adding a blank space at the end of a line or a blank line at the end of the page; in these cases the edit is cancelled and the edit summary discarded. However, one can, for example, add an extra space between two words, or a line break (changing the number of line breaks at that point from 0 to 1 or from 2 to 3, not from 1 to 2); these changes are preserved in the wikitext and recorded as a change, although they do not change the rendered page.

Note that on one's watchlist, if the last edit of a page was minor there is no indication whether there have also been major changes recently. Since one is typically interested in all changes (or at least all major changes) since one last checked, the history of the article needs to be checked.

A sysop's semi-automatic reversion of the edits of the last editor of a page is automatically marked minor, even if the edits were substantial, and hence the reversion is too. This should be understood as that the cumulation of the reverted edit(s) and the reversion is minor (actually nothing). This has the undesirable effect that if preferences have been set to hide minor edits, and an undesirable edit has not been marked minor, one sees that, but not a possible semi-automatic reversion, in Recent Changes and Enhanced Recent Changes.

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