Investigating What triggers an article to be shown as "Updated: Date here"?

[thecatumbrella]

Feel free to remove the Investigating prefix if it's not relevant.

I make a lot of micro changes to my articles. Fixing typos, changing a word or formatting here or there, adding hyperlinks, etc. One of them triggered the "Updated" status, which seems to push it up in the queue as "new". I really don't want to do this because that would be very annoying for everyone else, given how often I tinker.

I'm guessing it was caused by adding (and subsequently deleting) a page. Are there any other actions that trigger an article to update?

 

[casportpony]

Maybe this?

 

[thecatumbrella]

Maybe this?
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I did see that, and I make sure not to check it. It’s unchecked by default, thank goodness.

Seems to be the inverse of that for any pages added to an article! I have to select “silent update”.

 

[Debbie292d]

I don't think you're alone. I see these two updated today. I rated them previously, so they for sure aren't new to me.

I didn't even bother checking or unchecking anything when I tagged you in my mouse deterrent article, nor when I deleted your tag. Did mine show up in the New Articles too? I didn't notice.

 

[thecatumbrella]

I didn't even bother checking or unchecking anything when I tagged you in my mouse deterrent article, nor when I deleted your tag. Did mine show up in the New Articles too? I didn't notice.

I didn't check, but I should have!

Wish I could find a way around this. I was planning to add another page to my member page, and it would be nice if I could prevent it from jumping to the top as "new".

 

[Debbie292d]

I didn't check, but I should have!

Wish I could find a way around this. I was planning to add another page to my member page, and it would be nice if I could prevent it from jumping to the top as "new".

I think it would still be up there if it was never viewed by you. I'll do it again and we'll see.

 

[Debbie292d]

Okay. I edited it and just saved and closed as usual.

I noticed this was how it was set.

See if you see mine in New Articles. I don't, but not sure I would see my own there.

 

[thecatumbrella]

Okay. I edited it and just saved and closed as usual.

I noticed this was how it was set.

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See if you see mine in New Articles. I don't, but not sure I would see my own there.

Nope. Not in new. Interesting!

 

[Debbie292d]

Nope. Not in new. Interesting!

That's odd how mine doesn't, but those two examples I showed, plus your own, show up in New Articles. Those two possibly checked the box though.

Just as a note: I made sure to do the edits as the author and not as a moderator.

 

[thecatumbrella]

That's odd how mine doesn't, but those two examples I showed, plus your own, show up in New Articles. Those two possibly checked the box though.

Just as a note: I made sure to do the edits as the author and not as a moderator.

It has to be triggered by me adding pages. What stinks is I don't have a lot of options in the Manage Pages section. Certainly nothing for publishing as a silent update. I'm so sorry if it bumps it to "new" again, but hopefully this will be the last time.

I'm also confused why the Chicken & Duck name article got flagged as "updated", since it looks to be mostly text. Like I said, I change small things in mine all the time, and they appear to hold their original publish date.