From that disussion the change was obviously made as the bot flag had yet to exist. I've added a footnote to Help:Minor edit. Graham 87 09:50, 25 April 2014 (UTC) Thanks for finding that. I found this out by following the links from the first version of Wikipedia:Minor edit (note that the actual links are broken due to the subsequent re-organization of the mailing list archives). Jason Quinn ( talk) 22:55, 24 April 2014 (UTC) Minor edits were disabled for anonymous users in January 2003 after this discussion (which focused on bot edits and RecentChanges). I still end up checking the edit to make sure it's kosher. It's never really helped me with monitoring my watchlist either. And it's often subjective when to use it. It's not clear to me that anybody uses or cares about this feature. The whole minor edit thing seems to me expendable. PrimeHunter ( talk) 10:53, 24 April 2014 (UTC) Ah, then I'm just blind. The ability to mark changes as minor is one of many reasons to register." It has been there since the page creation in 2004. 206.117.89.4 ( talk) 09:53, 24 April 2014 (UTC) ( User:Ansh666) Help:Minor edit says: "Users who are not logged in to Wikipedia are not permitted to mark changes as minor because of the potential for vandalism. Is there any specific reason that this checkbox is disabled for IP editors? No opinion on whether it should be or not, I'm just curious because I'm so used to seeing it there. Archives: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, AA, AB, AC, AD, AE, AF, AG, AH, AI, AJ, AK, AL, AM, AN, AO, AP, AQ, AR, AS, AT, AU, AV, AW, AX.If you wish to revive any of these discussions, either start a new thread or use the talk page associated with that topic. Please do not edit the contents of this page. This page contains discussions that have been archived from Village pump (technical).
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