Update: All this is superseded by an existing module, http://drupal.org/project/content_type_overview
Requests for this feature go all the way back to the days of Drupal 4.6, at the least:
create new revision by default http://drupal.org/node/53149 (4.6 era post!)
This feature remains wanted-- here is the manual instructions, for Stanford.edu!
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