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A good rule of thumb is that edits consisting solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content should be flagged as minor edits. | A good rule of thumb is that edits consisting solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content should be flagged as minor edits. | ||
== When to mark an edit as a minor edit == | |||
* Spelling and grammatical corrections | |||
* Simple formatting (''e.g.'', capitalization, punctuation, 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 "[[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] resigned in 1874" to "[[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] resigned in 1974") | |||
* Fixing layout errors | |||
* Adding or correcting [[Help:Link#Wikilinks|wikilinks]], or fixing broken external links and references already present in the article | |||
* Removing obvious [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]] | |||