I'm a fairly active curator on one of the Stack Exchange sites, and I do some curation on the other sites as well. In accordance with [Should 'Hi', 'thanks', taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2950) I remove the following phrases when I come across them in posts:

* Hi, how are you doing?
* Hope you're having a good day.
* Thanks for the help.
* Thanks in advance.
* Hope this helps.
* You're welcome.

and so on.

When making these edits I like to explain why in the edit message. For some time now, I have been writing "Removed salutations". One definition of the word "salutation" in [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salutation) is:

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> an expression of greeting, goodwill, or courtesy by word, gesture, or ceremony
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which seems to broadly cover what I want to say. However, I don't know if it's too specific, and whether it actually covers phrases such as "Hope this helps".

I have considered something along the lines of "Removed noise/clutter", but apart from the fact that this could be construed as slightly rude (users who add these phrases are doing it in good faith, after all), this describes *why* I'm removing that content more than describing *what* the content is that I'm removing.

So I'm looking for a phrase that conveys something along the lines of:

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> Removed *extraneous text, which is perfectly reasonable in normal discourse, but is inappropriate for the Q&A format on Stack Exchange*.
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I'm not looking for a single word, but I also don't want the phrase to be longer than a few words. If there's an idiom that describes this, that would be great as well.