Help talk:Minor edit

message: I was about to link Help:Minor edit to explain a potential problem with an edit, which might have been incorrectly marked as a "minor edit", possibly to avoid scrutiny. Is there no established policy or guideline about this? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 14:48, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It's reasonable to link here for that purpose, and it's true that misuse can be a way of trying to avoid scrutiny. However, the reason that this isn't a guideline, and I don't know of any guideline such as WP:DE that mentions it, is that the boundary between minor and not-minor is too subjective to be enforceable. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:28, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a shame in my opinion, as the minor edit mark is quite extensively used and trusted. I think the guidelines for this feature could and should be made objective enough to be considered a policy. This feature has been around for so long that enough experience and information has been gathered on its use to be able to establish a clear line. If not I think this feature should be removed as it's just stupid to have it without regulations, since many misuse or even abuse it then. It seems to me to be fairly common. Particularly are there many who seems to believe that updating sports articles and statistics is considered minor, while I think it's clear from these informal guidelines – uhm, information – that that's not what the Minor edit function is intended to be. But it's not mentioned here, so I cannot say for sure and strike down on those who do it. Details like that can be worked out to form a clear and concise guideline. --Mango från yttre rymden (talk) 19:34, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm of the There Are No Minor Edits school –last time I clicked that button was when I'd accidentally published a page I was still working on– and furthermore not only they are counted in the ESU, they have the option of having summaries of their own (which are themselves counted). Edit is an edit is an edit. (talk) 13:57, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there an established guideline to link to instead? Should this become one? 

message: what is the etiquette for adding  tags.  is this a minor edit or not?  i'm assuming it is.  but, it's not clear to me that is correct.  can a moderation expert please update the what to/what not to sections of help:Minor edit page to clarify this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanmcd27 (talk • contribs) 08:16, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not a minor edit, and the help page covers this where it says . -- John of Reading (talk) 08:30, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: As an infrequent editor I wasn't aware of a topic about visible tags.  Nearly all edits worth bothering to login and fix are going to be visible.  Why is visibility relevant?  I still think adding this to the prescriptive what is/is not section would be helpful.  That's the obvious first place to look when questioning what is/is not a minor edit, especially when seeking clarification of a vague statement or unfounded assertion which is a weakness in reference material that is a common source of confusion. Seanmcd27 (talk) 08:43, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Usually for me I will consider typo or syntax error correction as minor edit. Chongkian (talk) 04:05, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  what qualifies as a minor edit clarification request 

message: Because normally there's no option for a minor edit when editing in mobile WP... Sheep (talk) 11:34, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't appear to be possible. Many interface features are omitted in the mobile version. PrimeHunter (talk) 14:52, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to mark an edit as minor in mobile WP? 

message: I think we should remove this from the list, what is, or is not, an obvious factual error is highly subjective and contradicts the idea that minor edits shouldn't change the meaning of an article.   JeffUK 20:34, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Obvious factual errors" is not like the other things in 'What is a minor edit' .