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y some busy editors might not assume good faith and revert the change without evaluating it properly providing an edit summary helps prevent that kind of error summaries are less important for minor changes which means generally unchallengeable changes such as spelling or grammar corrections but a brief note like fixed spelling is helpful even then to avoid accidentally leaving edit summaries blank registered editors can select prompt me when entering a blank edit summary on the editing tab of the user preferences how to write an edit summary conventions shortcut wp editsumcite wp editsumcite see also wikipedia edit summary legend and its quick reference summarize summarize the change even if only briefly even a short summary is better than no summary explain give reasons for the change if you think other editors may be unclear as to why you made it if you believe a wikipedia policy or guideline justifies the change then you may include a link to it in your explanation abbreviations abbreviations should be used with care they can be confusing for new contributors for an explanation of some commonly used abbreviations see this edit summary legend expand on important information readers who see only the summary might not get the entire picture prevent misunderstanding if an edit requires more explanation than will fit in the summary box post a comment to the article s talk page to give more information and include see talk or see discussion page in the edit summary if you are copying text within wikipedia you must at least put a link to the source page in the edit summary at the destination page talk pages when editing talk pages consider reflecting the gist of your comment in the edit summary this allows users to check recent changes page history and user contributions see below very efficiently what to avoid in edit summaries shortcut wp summaryno wp summaryno avoid misleading summaries mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important you could add something like and misc to cover the other changes avoid vagueness while edit summaries can be terse they should still be specific providing an edit summary similar to i made some changes is functionally equivalent to not providing a summary at all a avoid long summaries edit summaries are not for explaining every detail writing essays about the truth or long winded arguments with fellow editors for discussions you should use the talk page avoid inappropriate summaries you should explain your edits but without being overly critical or harsh when editing or reverting others work this may be perceived as uncivil and cause resentment or conflict explain what you changed citing the relevant policies guidelines or principles of good writing but do not target others in a way that may come across as a personal attack avoid incivility snide comments personal remarks about editors and other aggressive edit summaries are explicit edit summary don ts of the wikipedia civility policy warning be careful of what you write in edit summaries inappropriate edit summaries may be used as evidence against you in behavioral complaints this applies particularly to uncivil and deliberately misleading edit summaries use of edit summaries in disputes shortcut wp revtalk wp revtalk proper use of edit summaries is critical to resolving content disputes edit summaries should accurately and succinctly summarize the nature of the edit especially if it could be controversial if the edit involves reverting previous changes it should be marked as a revert rv in the edit summary avoid using edit summaries to carry on debates or negotiations over the content this creates an atmosphere where the only way to carry on the discussion is to revert other editors if you notice this happening start a section on the talk page and place your comments there this keeps discussions and debates away from the article page itself for example reverted edits by user example see talk for rationale as with any other wikipedia space do not express opinions on other users in edit summaries fixing after you publish the page you cannot change the edit summary so be careful with it particularly if you are in a heated content dispute do not write things you will regret if you make an important omission or error in an edit summary you can correct this by making a dummy edit a change in the page with no visible effects and adding further information in the dummy edit s summary in the extreme case of an edit summary containing certain kinds of harmful content the summary can be deleted on request they may be removed from public view by administrators using revision deletion such edit summaries remain visible to administrators in even more limited circumstances the entire edit may be oversighted leaving it and its edit summary visible only to the handful of users with the oversight permission edit summary properties and features shortcut wp sumfeature wp sumfeature limited to 500 characters the edit summary box can hold one line of approximately 500 characters if you attempt to type or paste more only the first 500 will be displayed the rest will be discarded for example attempting to add 10 new characters at the end or in between to a summary already containing 495 characters may result in the first 5 new characters being inserted and the final 5 being disregarded show preview the show preview and show changes buttons also provide a preview of the edit summary to facilitate checking links can t be changed after saving after you publish the page you cannot change the edit summary this is due to technical limitations that will not be changed see phabricator tasks t12105 and t15937 in brief the original has to be preserved and all changes would also have to be logged if you forget to add an edit summary or make a significant mistake in your edit summary e g due to autofill then make a dummy edit to post the corrected information if you have a really significant problem with an edit summary e g a wp blp violation ask any admin to use revision deletion to hide the problematic edit summary for privacy violations e g your web browser autofilled your home phone number you can ask the oversight volunteer team to suppress it doesn t appear in searches the built in search function cannot search edit summaries and they are not indexed by external search engines wikilinks always rendered other wikitext coding ignored edit summaries render internal links including piped links and interwiki links even when enclosed within nowiki nowiki tags therefore copying wikitext in the edit summary box may be preferable to copying text from the preview except when one wants to save space other wikitext coding is not interpreted although urls do not produce clickable links a wikilink with special diff can make clickable diffs to reference a revision and special permalink can make permanent links has no effect so do not sign edit summaries you can mention or ping a user in your edit summary to mention the user example you need to type user example anywhere in the edit summary places where the edit summary appears the edit summary appears in black italics in the following places page history list of changes to the page you edited user contributions list of all your edits watchlist b list of recent changes to watched pages logged in users only diff page shows the difference between two edits permanent link shows an old version of a page recent changes list of all recent edits wikipedia irc channels real time list of all edits related changes list of recent changes to pages linked to the page you edited list of new pages shows the edit summary of the creation the source text of the edit summary can be seen at en wikipedia org w api php action query prop revisions rvprop comment revids id where id is the revision number for example says diff 845523983 in the url so revids 845523983 shows the edit summary source the link uses mw api revisions which is mainly intended for programs section editing wp redirects here for other uses see wp redirect and wp moving a page when editing an existing section the section title is automatically inserted in the edit summary box and enclosed with and marks for example external links when viewing such an edit summary the section title will appear with a small arrow next to it external links this is a section link that when clicked on will in most cases lead you to the section you are editing if you are editing the lead section it will instead simply insert which will become top upon being rendered 1 2 details of the edit should be added after this text which will add a colon after the section title when adding a new section to a discussion page with the new section button the section title is used as the edit summary if you create a new section before or after an existing section by clicking a section edit link delete the text between and marks or change it to the new section title to avoid confusion 3 note tools that track edit summary usage by a user such as xtools do not consider the auto added part as a summary that s any part within and you re encouraged to provide a real edit summary whether the edit box contains such an auto summary or not since april 2026 with t362467 if you use awb or the android app see t280308 to edit the lead the edit summary will instead produce the slightly different top it is possible to manually include links to multiple sections using the syntax this may be useful when editing several sections at once the edit summary foo test bar test should be rendered as foo test bar test see this edit automatic summaries main page help automatic edit summaries in certain circumstances an automatic summary is generated when an edit is published without one this is slightly different from the summary added when editing a section as that can be modified by the user before saving except for the automatic summary when creating a redirect which usually says all that needs to be said these are not a substitute for a proper edit summary you should always leave a meaningful summary even in the above cases they are however useful in providing some context for edits made by inexperienced users who are not aware of the importance of edit summaries and for spotting vandalism when starting a new thread on a talk page by using the new section tab the text you type into the subject headline field becomes both the heading of your discussion topic and the edit summary for that edit tags see also wikipedia tags tags i e edit tags are brief messages that the software automatically places next to certain edits in histories recent changes and other special pages they are implemented by the edit filter to help assist vandalism patrollers and other page watchers they cannot be added or removed manually notes for experienced users there are standard templates for warning editors who delete content without providing an edit summary uw delete1 which assumes good faith and uw delete2 which doesn t uw editsummary is available for notifying users who have not provided an edit summary for other types of edits summary2 works better for more experienced users who need to be reminded rather than taught these are available via twinkle when editors run for adminship their rfa pages include statistics about how often they have provided edit summaries in the past a user s edit summary usage can be checked with this tool example if you are a registered user and want to show your commitment to always leaving edit summaries which will remind other users of the importance of doing so you can use any of the following userboxes wikitext userbox where used user edit summary wtf this user always leaves an edit summary linked pages user idell editsummary this user s mind reading skills are not so good please leave an edit summary linked pages user leaves edit summaries what did you do this user includes edit summaries in their contributions and thinks that everyone else should use them too linked pages user marek69 edit summary template this user uses edit summaries linked pages user ritchie333 userbox es this user s mind reading skills are not so good please leave an edit summary linked pages user sdrqaz userbox macbeth this user is haunted by the times they forgot to use an edit summary out damned spot what will these hands ne er be clean linked pages the 500 character limit the limit of 500 characters is an approximation the actual limit is 500 unicode codepoints most characters occupy one codepoint but some characters like those with diacritics or emojis may consist of more than one codepoint the limit of 500 codepoints includes the section title marker and the associated and also any wiki markup that may be present for editors who have javascript enabled there is a script included with the page that monitors the codepoint length of the summary and prevents entering summaries longer than 500 codepoints both in edit source and in visual editor a count is displayed at the right hand end of the text entry field showing the number of unused codepoints when javascript is disabled this safeguard can t function and the only protection is the browser s limit of 500 characters which may overflow the 500 codepoint limit as a result of any characters that are represented by more than one codepoint when the edit is done by a bot through an external tool such as wp awb or through some user script or gadget it s the responsibility of the tool or script to safeguard against overflowing this limit in any situation where more than 500 codepoints are entered for the edit summary the summary is truncated to 500 codepoints when the revision is published see also this page is referenced in the wikipedia glossary wikipedia edit summary legend commonly used edit summary abbreviations wikipedia added or removed characters wikipedia red flags in edit summaries wikipedia what does per mean help deletion summary how to respond to a no consensus edit summary wikipedia user scripts list edit summary notes in some cases not providing an edit summary is better than providing a vague one in particular avoid creating a redirect with an edit summary like created redirect since that is less descriptive than the automatic summary that will be provided if the field is left blank set your watchlist preferences to see all recent changes in the watched pages not just the last change in each page this is sometimes called the enhanced watchlist external links user edit summary search this tool will search through a user s edit summaries and return edits with a partial match as a cgi file v t e wikipedia help pages visit the teahouse or the help desk for an interactive q a forum faqs reference desks noticeboards cheatsheet directories village pumps about wikipedia administration purpose principles policies and guidelines what wikipedia is not disclaimer parental advice making requests who 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