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"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"For what it's worth, and not saying this is necessarily a better way, what I usually do in these situations is edit the page in multiple passes, with each pass sticking to one type of edit: one pass fixing up formatting problems, one pass deleting misapplied tropes, one pass adding new examples, and so on. If I notice something that needs doing that doesn't fit the task at hand I make a note and come back to it in a later pass. It makes more reading for somebody looking at the edit history, but I like to think it makes up for it by being easier to see what I actually did.

Often when I finish a new book/movie/series/etc. I will go through the full page here on TV Tropes to clean up, reformat and add/remove tropes as needed. Since I am usually late to the party and the page has already been growing for weeks or months or years, this normally means a lot of edits all done at once; dozens of formatting changes, misapplied tropes deleted, examples re-written, etc.
I usually give a lump-sum edit reason (i.e. "Re-writing whole page") instead of listing every change because that would make the edit reason an essay in itself, but I've been wondering if there's an official way to explain a full-page re-write.
Should I actually specify each and every change? Is there a policy in place?