Thread:Annoliyte/@comment-24150802-20140614065551

Hi Annoliyte,

I've noticed that you've been making a lot of very small changes to a large number of wiki pages, for example to insert or remove commas or to make minor wording adjustments for stylistic reasons. Those sorts of edits are best not done by themselves, but instead only done when a page is being edited for a more important reason.

This is because every time a change is made, it's added to the wiki's history lists, and those lists become harder to use the more changes there are (e.g., it's harder to find large changes that might need to be reviewed or reverted). Also, the wiki administrators and other editors are notified by email of changes to pages that they are following, and doing many minor, unimportant edits adds greatly to the number of emails, without there being a benefit to offset the inconvenience.

What you might like to do instead is look for ways that you can significantly improve pages, and then when you are editing a page for an important change, you can also look through it to find minor stylistic adjustments that you might want to make.

I realise that it can be very difficult to tell the difference between a subjective stylistic improvement (generally not desirable by itself) and a small but important change (e.g., to fix true grammatical errors, or spelling errors, or to improve the wiki's tone), so if you have any questions about this at any time, you're most welcome to ask them here and I'll clarify anything you're not sure about. 