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Regarding minor edits
SV began marking almost all edits as minor by August 2006, having apparently checked the option to mark edits as minor by default. He seems to have stopped on or around 2010-Sep-8 after having been repeatedly requested to stop doing this over several years.


 * 2007-May-29 by User:Bathrobe: . Removed without comment (and marked as 'minor').
 * 2009-May-22 by User:Leadwind: . Reply by SV, response from LW.
 * 2010-May-6 by User:Rjanag: . Response by Stevertigo. Further help from Rjanag.
 * 2010-Jul-30 by User:David Levy: . Replies, very odd rationales here:, ending with 'I understand' from SV 2010-Jul-31.
 * 2010-Aug-17 by User:Quiddity: . Reiterated 2010-Sep-6 . Removed without comment.
 * 2010-Sep-3 by User:David Levy: . Removed without comment.

Many page moves made as minor edits. A few more recent examples are given here. Some are uncontested: Submission (psychology), Mithraic mysteries. Many other moves marked as minor were contested or reverted: Repulsion, Floor, Discrimination against the disabled, Manner of articulation, Intelligence (information gathering), Dominion, Containment.

Regarding edit summaries
SV often makes series of edits to established articles, with inadequate summaries. These often include more or less complete re-writes of the lede. Example: War.

Several editors have politely asked SV to make more consistent use of edit summaries over the years, but the response has often been dismissive or occasionally hostile.
 * 2005-May-11 by User:Oleg Alexandrov: . SV removes with dismissive edit summary . OA politely responds with explanation, and User:Netoholic confirms . SV oddly removes most of message with nasty and personalized edit summary , leaves last bit in place and responds without getting the point . Netoholic explains again , User:Xiong reinforces . Removed without further response.
 * 2006-Apr-11 by User:Diza: . Removed without response.
 * 2007-Jan-16 by User:Will Pittenger: . Response from SV denies that there's any issue: . Reply from WP.
 * 2007-Feb-7 by User:Swpb:.
 * 2010-Aug-17 by User:Quiddity: . Removed without comment.
 * 2010-Sep-3 by User:David Levy: . Removed without comment.

Regarding Dark matter
Edits at dark matter are illustrative. The first of his recent edits was 2010-Jun-15 . The issues with these edits verge on content questions for this particular article, but more importantly illustrate a pattern that shows up again and again in many articles. The main problem here is that SV tries to rewrite the lead based on his own thoughts of the moment, without following sources; and often a sentence or phrase appears to be just a nexus of related words.
 * Idiosyncratic use of "conceptualization" where its function is not clear . (Possibly related to Conceptualization?).
 * "where matter, or 'visible matter,' itself does not exist" - the words are related, but what's the meaning?
 * Introduced "cosmological scales" as a replacement for the "matter itself does not exist" phrase, but it's not clear why, since dark matter is not specific to cosmological scales.
 * Later replaced with "astrophysical scales", but again it's not clear where this would come from. (Astrophysical scales contrast with microscopic or everyday distances, but that's not very informative here; and as far as I can tell, the phrase was extracted not from a source but from a talk page comment).
 * Another confluence of words without any clear meaning at all, "ubiquitous mass-gravitational phenomenon".
 * There's a substantial talk page record around these edits, in which SV was collegial and welcomed criticism, but the point would never seem to take, as he would usually replace one phrase with another one that was equally out-of-the-blue.

Article creation
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Articles about groupings of words

 * General and special
 * Theoretical substance
 * L and R
 * Religious language
 * Divine authority
 * Religious concept (prodded; deleted, 2009-Jan-3)
 * Anarcho- (prodded; redirected)
 * East and West (prodded; turned into redirect)
 * Relativity and quantum mechanics (prodded; redir to quantum gravity)
 * Bible changes (speedied)
 * Photo fraud
 * Epistemology (disambiguation)
 * Capital crime

Cf

 * Conceptualization (cf x 2)
 * Relativism (cf, see)
 * Time (in accord with)
 * Time in physics, (cf x 2, X in nature, odd pipes)