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Undid revision 1195429183 by SMcCandlish (talk) - Your change did not seem to fix anything, but you did break the parallelism. People who are going to quote out of context will do so regardless of what the exact wording is. |
SMcCandlish (talk | contribs) My bad! How about just fix the parallelism. If someone quotes this version of the segment out-of-context, then it will be obvious that it's fragmentary. Tag: Reverted |
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;{{vanchor| cosmetic edit / substantive edit |Cosmetic edit|Substantive edit|Cosmetic|Substantive|cosmetic edit|substantive edit|cosmetic|substantive}}
:A ''cosmetic'' edit is one that doesn't change the output HTML or readable text of a page. By contrast, a ''substantive edit'' is one that does change the output HTML or readable text of a page. However, the term ''cosmetic edit'' is often used to encompass all edits of ''such little value'' that the community deems them to not be worth making in bulk, even though those edits might change the output HTML or readable text in subtle ways. Cosmetic edits will almost always be ''{{gli|minor edit}}s''. They may improve the ''{{gli|editor-friendly wikitext|friendliness and consistency of the wikitext}}'', although [[Wikipedia:Edit warring|edit warring]] on presentation (e.g.
:The term ''cosmetic'' refers to the appearance of the ''{{gli|wikitext}}'', rather than the output page.
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