[Wikipedia-l] Minor changes

Thu Nov 21 09:11:22 UTC 2002

Toby Bartels wrote:

>OTOH, what the writer does is to *mark* minor edits.
>I always mark punctuation, spelling, and linking changes
>in this way (regardless of whether I'm interested in publicity).
>Nobody will see my apostrophes and spelling corrections
>if they, as readers, hide minor edits in their user preferences.
>(There are exceptions where I forget, but these are simply mistakes.)
>
I too have chosen not to hide minor edits, and it often happens that 
some changes that are marked as minor aren't that minor at all.  It can 
be an effective tool for sneaking in a point of view.

>>Some thoughtless people (readers of this list, I believe) are even
>>putting moves from a private chess game into Recent Changes for
>>reasons unfathomable to polite people.
>>
I've seen this, but it is going back and forth on their user talk pages 
where there is some latitude.  Quaint but harmless.  I generally don't 
look at all the material on user talk-pages unless I'm involved in a 
current conversation with them.

Some years age I knew a person who played long distance telephone chess. 
 All the calls were made collect from a fictitious person, and the call 
was refused.  The fictitious person's name was a coded chess move.

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