07 59 30 Apr 2005 UTC Question about number of edits Hello since the welcome message to my talk page came from you I presume you re the person I should turn to with any questions I notice that every time anyone makes a change in an article the old and new versions are stored in the history page I m not terribly computer literate but it seems that that would take up a lot of space and I presume Wikipedia doesn t have infinite webspace If I see an incorrect comma in the third paragraph a spelling error in the fifth an incorrect link in the sixth an incorrect date in the eighth and unclear wording in the thirteenth does Wikipedia prefer that I do one big edit so that it will have only one new page to store or is it okay to save as I go along Are the individual versions in the history page deleted after a certain length of time I ve been editing my user page and just wonder whether I should leave changes until I have something big to change Thanks 20 39 29 Apr 2005 UTC Butting in here again as people ask more interesting questions on Mel s talk page than on mine Ann firstly diskspace is so incredibly cheap that you could type flat out for your whole life and you wouldn t fill a drive that cost 100 euros so don t worry about diskspace This issue of what to do in an individual edit is one purely for the convenience of other people who are reading it So if you re doing a bunch of fairly trivial tweaks fixing grammar spelling formatting etc then do all of those in one go and give an edit summary like various grammar and spelling tweaks If the article needs tweaks and also need a higher level change adding or removing a big chunk of text fixing some wording that you thing is seriously incorrect or misreading then do the trivial fixes in one edit and the other fix in another with an edit summary like removing nonsense about Father Dougal So in summary make changes based on what is a logical unit not what s convenient for the software talk contribs 21 35 29 Apr 2005 UTC Thanks for this I ve copied it to Ann Heghan s Talk page