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February 2021

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Information icon Hi Irwin McLean! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "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. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 10:41, 4 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

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