User talk:Safety In Obscurity
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Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 03:20, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
February 2025
Hi Safety In Obscurity! I noticed that you recently made an edit and marked it as "minor", but it may not have been. "Minor edit" has a specific definition on Wikipedia: it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 12:16, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Doug, the article's meaning remains unchanged. Was this an automated comment? Safety In Obscurity (talk) 12:22, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hm, maybe. But your edit to Human interface guidelines changed the meaning, as did changing "the" to "an" in another article where you even pointed out in your edit summary there was more than one answer. Best to avoid using it I think. Doug Weller talk 14:21, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- I'm overusing the minor edit tag, understood. Criticising its use for "the" to "an" feels rather nitpicky though.
- I understand maintaining high standards is important, but your message is undermined if examples don't clearly violate good practice.
- There are much more egregious examples of my misusing the "minor edit" tag to better punctuate your point. Safety In Obscurity (talk) 14:49, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- I actually thought that was fairly major - "the" means one, "an" means more than one. Doug Weller talk 16:44, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- It corrected a common grammatical mistake.
- "the incorrect answer" is trivially incorrect compared to "an incorrect answer", especially in maths where there may be infinite incorrect answers.
- So common as to essentially be a typo. Safety In Obscurity (talk) 17:09, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- I actually thought that was fairly major - "the" means one, "an" means more than one. Doug Weller talk 16:44, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hm, maybe. But your edit to Human interface guidelines changed the meaning, as did changing "the" to "an" in another article where you even pointed out in your edit summary there was more than one answer. Best to avoid using it I think. Doug Weller talk 14:21, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
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