Toby Bartels wrote:
I agree, truly new pages are never minor.
The exception is new redirects; like Brion, I mark these minor.
But I don't mark any other new pages minor and wouldn't want to.
Here's another, though. Sometimes a user might want to save a page
often while working, due to exploding web browser problems. So the
user might save a new page before he or she is really done working on
it at that moment, and might make the save minor so that other people
don't jump into something not yet completed.
And then when they finish the new article's first draft, they publish it as
a regular edit.
Maybe.
The main thing is that people shouldn't abuse it, and at least some people should
always be eyeballing the minor edits for trouble.
--Jimbo