- Examples:
- Opening the edit window and saving. A section edit however can sometimes result in a dummy edit.
- Adding newlines only to the end of the article and saving. This is also a null edit.
If a transcluded template has added or removed a category since it was last transcluded, the purge function will not update the category page, but a null edit will.
When a page is moved or protected, the summary will be saved, along with a null edit.
Famous quotes containing the words dummy and/or edit:
“Fathers and Sons is not only the best of Turgenev’s novels, it is one of the most brilliant novels of the nineteenth century. Turgenev managed to do what he intended to do, to create a male character, a young Russian, who would affirm his—that character’s—absence of introspection and at the same time would not be a journalist’s dummy of the socialistic type.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)