Bay & Gables

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Happy editing! Jr8825 • Talk 00:27, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Edit summaries needed - and your edits are not minor

Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits.

I also noticed that you recently marked almost all your edits as minor when they clearly weren't. "Minor edit" has a very 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 or the addition of an image. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   20:48, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

@Velella: Thanks for the heads-up. No problem – I'll write edit summaries as a rule and refrain from ticking "minor edit" for all my future non-typo-related edits. Cheers, --Bay & Gables (talk) 22:12, 9 April 2021 (UTC)