Help:Minor edit

In general, a minor edit is any change that you don’t want to draw attention to, or clutter the Recent Changes page with. Overall, it is your judgment. To declare an edit minor, check the box next labeled This is a minor edit, before hitting the Save button. The following are examples of minor edits:

• Typos,
• Small fixes,
• Repetitive, “humdrum” changes to multiple files.
• Adding links to words

Deleting or creating a page is considered a major edit. When a deletion and creation constitutes a page renaming, updating the links to the deleted page could be hidden.

As with major edits, provide a short summary describing a minor edit. Sometimes, minor edits are hidden from the Special:RecentChanges page, but can be displayed by clicking "Include minor changes".

The purpose of having minor edits is to display the more important changes and remove the clutter of less-important changes. It is good etiquette to avoid abusing the system to hide major changes as minor changes or “skywriting” minor changes as major.

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