THE MEANING OF EDITS OR CHANGES
When you see a note from me on a specific page saying something like "last edited December 3, 2002," or "Changes last made December 3, 2002," or "Last edits or changes, Dec. 3, 2002," etc. it means that the date there given is the most "RECENT" date on which ANY changes have been made to that material. "Changes" may be anything, an addition or a deletion of some text (usually an addition), or may even mean spelling corrections. In some page I may have a long "article" consisting of many paragraphs, which you have already read. But I might have come along SINCE you last read it, and might have "continued" writing that article, ADDING more to it. So it may be helpful to you to keep and eye out for those notes like "Last edits or changes, Dec. 3, 2002." There may be new material you haven't seen yet.
If I have worked on things in the site and made changes or additions, etc., and have FORGOTTEN to state it inside an article or on a page with a "last edited" note, and I realize it later, I MIGHT resort to a "catch all" notice, by simply saying it at the bottom of the Front Entrance Page of the website. That's not ideal, of course, because "that" doesn't inform you specifically "where" in the website "changes" have been made. But at least it can serve to give you an idea of how recently "something" in the site has been updated.
As I said, changes might be ANYTHING. For instance, I might come in and work on the site and do no more than "link" words to other locations. That is, to give you a silly example here, I might make a single word like "cats" into a "hyperlink" so that if you click on that one word it will take you to, say, a Wikipedia page on cats. Also I have my own "dictionary" or "lexicon" or "glossary" of words and terms that I happen to use. I might turn one of "my" words into a hyperlink for you, so that clicking on that word I've used will supply you with explanations of "my" usage and meanings by that word. So a "last updated on this date" notice could possibly mean that I was in the site on that date making even mundane improvements such as those. Less than fascinating, I know, but again, at least the notices will let you know whether there's something "new" in the site or not.
Further, in such pages where there are long articles containing many paragraphs or "sections" or "blocks" of text, I might come in and want to add a brand new block of text to an "old" page. That's where it can get complicated: I might have a "notice" attached to an "old" paragraph in the page, saying "Written Nov. 1822," and when I "include" this new text, I might attach a note just to IT saying "Oct. 1902." So there can be different dates affixed to different sections of text, all on the same page. But again, my intention is to afford you a convenience. These little "date notices" should help you know whether the material before you is matter you've already read before, or that it might have come in SINCE you were there last.
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