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Help:Minor edit

A minor edit doesn’t require review and shouldn’t lead to disputes. Checking the minor edit box signifies that you are only making superficial changes. Examples include typographical corrections, corrections of minor formatting errors, and reversions of obvious vandalism. An edit of this kind is marked in its page’s revision history with a lowercase, bolded "m" character (m). Because editors may choose to ignore minor edits when reviewing recent changes, the distinction between major and minor edits is significant. Logged-in users can set their preferences not to display minor edits. If there is any chance that another editor might dispute a change, the edit should not be marked as minor. (If an editor considers a change to be minor yet conceivably controversial, one option is to include the word "minor" in the edit summary without ticking the "minor edit" box.) It’s acceptable to never mark a single edit as "minor".