  ::::::As an inadvertant observer of this conservation, I'll comment shortly on Eyreland's paragraphs directly above. The reason for leaving stuff on the talk page is a matter of full disclosure – as anybody can look up your editing history you may just leave it all in place. Plus, you should think of the talk page as a message board like the usenet: anybody should be able to look up and read your past discussions, and they may be helpful to uninvolved persons. It's not that it's private after all. ::::::Regarding resource management, by deleting stuff from your talk page you are actually increasing disk space requirements as another edit needs to be stored in the database and since old edits do not get purged. ::::::As far as minor edits are concerned, the link provided to you by John makes it clear what constitutes a minor edit. I agree that the concept is not ideal as you obviously cannot rely on an edit tagged as minor being as such. However, it also a matter of wikiquette to abide by these rules so people will know that you can be trusted on this aspect. ::::::Regards,   