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I know short edits are discouraged, and rightly so, but I don't think they should be completely disallowed. Sometimes a single character can make a large difference. For example,

"Frodo was Sam's employee"

is wrong and in a discussion about their relationship, the edit to fix it to be "employer" is relevant and not, in my mind, a "bad" edit.

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  • Yes, I've often wondered about that.
    – Donald.McLean
    Commented Jul 25, 2012 at 14:26

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It's really rare that a single-character change is the only thing that can be improved in a post. Look for other possible improvements: fix other spelling errors, add links for references, etc. If all else fails, leave a comment.

The topic has come up multiple times on the main meta site. The answer is always no, the limit won't change: Should tiny edits be accepted or rejected in review? — Remove trivial edit restriction — We're discouraged from fixing typos and misspellings on SE sites? — How to overcome “Edits must be at least 6 characters”? — pure code formatting, to enhance a question, is impossible (without 2k rep) — (and many more).

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    Oh look, a one-character edit... Are you sure there's a limit still in place?
    – Izkata
    Commented Jul 26, 2012 at 0:54
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    @Izkata The limitation applies only to suggested edits, not to unsupervised edits by users with 2000 rep.
    – user56
    Commented Jul 26, 2012 at 0:55
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    @Izkata that also is a one character edit the system sees as deleting 6 characters and adding 5. 11 character change by how it shows the diff.
    – Kortuk
    Commented Jul 31, 2012 at 0:32
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This is a restriction on users with less than 2000 rep. This shows a serious dedication of time an effort, and is meant to stop people with very few reputation points make too many small edits.

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