SirLyric: Why is it that when I make a major edit, giving it a useful comment, then notice a tiny mistake and make a minor edit, checking the box that says "don't log it to RecentChanges", the comment that shows on RecentChanges is the comment of the later, minor edit?

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As GoJaC points out, there are several issues at work here:

• when you immediately reedit a page (i.e. multiple sequential edits within a certain time) no new version is saved and RecentChanges shows only one entry.
• That RC entry is shown as a major edit if any of the sequential edits was a major edit.
• As sequential edits only produce one RC line, the latest edit summary line is taken to display in RC
  • Thus you see the "old" RC summary when making a sequential edit (reason: no new version). And if you change it, then the summary of a previous major edit changes as well ("previous" is in the current editing sequence of the same author)
• Also, therefore you cannot change a major edit to a minor edit by reediting and checking the minor edit box.
  • You can however change a minor edit to a major edit as the one major edit in the sequence prevails.

I hope that clears things up a bit.