User:Dr. Zaius 1976

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Things to remember

  • Marking a major change as a minor one is considered poor etiquette, especially if the change involves the deletion of some text.

When 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 or external links in an article
  • Adding comments to a talk page or other discussion

When to mark as minor changes

  • Spelling, grammatical, and punctuation corrections
  • Simple formatting (e.g., capitalization, or properly adding italics to non-English words, like folie des grandeurs, or titles of certain works, like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
  • 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)
  • Obvious factual errors (e.g., changing "Nixon resigned in 1874" to "Nixon resigned in 1974")
  • Fixing layout errors
  • Adding or correcting wikilinks, or fixing broken external links and references already present in the article
  • Removing obvious vandalism

--reference: WP:ME