Wikipedia:Editing policy: Difference between revisions

''Be cautious about making a major change to an article.'' Prevent [[WP:Edit warring|edit warring]] by discussing such edits first on the [[Help:Talk pages|article's talk page]]. An edit that one mighteditor characterizethinks asis peripheralminor or clearly warranted might be seen as a major changeor requiring prior discussionunwarranted by others; an editor with a habit of carefully considered, incontrovertible improvements that regardless lack explanation may soon find that their reasoning isn't always as clear to their peers as they had previously assumed. If you choose to [[WP:be bold|be bold]], tryprovide tothe justifyrationale yourfor any change in detailthe edit summary or on the article talk page,. soIf asyour tochange avoidis anlengthy editor war. Before making a major changecomplex, consider first creating a new draft on a [[Wikipedia:User_pages#SUB|subpage of your own user page]] and thenstart a discussion that includes a link to it on the article's talk page so as to facilitate a new discussion.