Thread:Qoazi/@comment-24108228-20150901102644

So few days ago you asked a question in the edit summary of an edit you made to the crossbow page. Although an unauthordox place to ask one, there's no point in leaving it unanswered.

If you make your edit a minor edit, it's flagged with an "m", and clicking "Hide Minor Edits" in the history/wiki activity pages will hide it. It's useful for when you correct someone's capitalisation on a sentence, and you figure that people looking through the edit history of the page probably don't need to see it. Bots can also take advantage of it, one of the bots on the Pokémon wiki goes around and turns "Poke" into "Poké". It'd spam the edit history a fair bit if every time someone came along and wrote "Pokémon" without a special keyboard it made it's own correctional edit, so by making all it's edits minor, you can press a button and only the real edits are left.

Hope I helped! :D 