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When filling in the edit summary box, pressing {{Key|Tab}}+{{Key|Space}} will also check the minor edit checkbox.
==When to mark an edit as minor==
* Simple spelling, grammatical, and punctuational changes.
* Simple formatting changes, like capitalization or adding italics to book titles.
* Formatting that doesn't change the meaning of the page, like moving an image to a different part of the page where it makes more sense.
* Fixing obvious factual errors (e.g. changing "The sky is green" to "The sky is blue").
* Correcting [[Help:Link|links]] on the page.
* [[Help:Reverting|Reverting]] or removing obvious [[Help:Vandalism|vandalism]].
==When ''not'' to mark an edit as minor==
* Adding or removing content.
* Adding or removing [[Help:Cite|references]].
* Adding comments to a [[Help:Talk page|talk page]].
==Things to remember==
It's generally bad taste to mark a major edit as minor. If you are ever in doubt about whether or not you should mark an edit as minor, it's probably best ''not'' to mark it as minor.
If you do accidentally mark an edit as minor, it's never a bad idea to make a second edit after that, such as a [[Help:Dummy edit|dummy edit]], and explain in your [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]] what happened. Make sure that your second edit changes some content; simply opening the edit window and then saving will not work.
If you ever do get into a disagreement with another editor as to whether or not an edit should've been marked as minor, it is better to talk about it on the [[Help:Talk page|talk page]]. If an [[Project:Edit warring|edit war]] appears to be brewing, it's best not to mark any reverts as minor.
Marking an edit as minor doesn't mean that your changes were somehow less important than major edits. A minor edit just means that your changes were not controversial and that everyone could reasonably agree that they can be unquestioningly kept.
==Other scenarios==
[[Project:Administrator|Administrators]] and [[Project:Rollback|rollbackers]] have an extra button called [[Help:Rollback|rollback]] that, when clicked, allows them to quickly revert all consecutive edits made by a user to the last edit not made by that user. This is usually done to revert vandalism. Rollbacks are always marked as a minor edit.
[[Help:Bot|Bots]] usually mark their edits as minor, since most bots engage in maintenance and not actual content creation.
==See also==
* [[w:en:Help:Minor edit|Help:Minor edit]] on the English Wikipedia
* [[metawikimedia:Help:Minor edit|Help:Minor edit]] on Meta Wikimedia
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|description = When editing a page, there is an option to mark the edit as a minor edit. This tells other readers and editors that you have made only superficial changes to the page and that it is not controversial. Examples of minor edits include fixing typos, correcting template usage, fixing formatting, and reverting vandalism. A minor edit is marked with a bolded m in the page history and on the diff of the edit.
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