If the edit involves reverting previous changes, it should be marked as a revert ("rv") in the edit summary.Īvoid using edit summaries to carry on debates or negotiation over the content. Edit summaries should accurately and succinctly summarize the nature of the edit, especially if it could be controversial. Proper use of edit summaries is critical to resolving content disputes. Snide comments, personal remarks about editors, and other aggressive edit summaries are explicit edit-summary "don'ts" of the Wikipedia Civility policy. 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. This may be perceived as uncivil, and cause resentment or conflict. You should explain your edits, but without being overly critical or harsh when editing or reverting others' work. For discussions, you should use the talk page. Edit summaries are not for explaining every detail, writing essays about "the truth", or long-winded arguments with fellow editors. Providing an edit summary similar to "I made some changes" is functionally equivalent to not providing a summary at all. While edit summaries can be terse, they should still be specific. You could add something like "and misc." to cover the other changes.
Mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important. 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. 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.
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. Readers who see only the summary might not get the entire picture. For an explanation of some commonly used abbreviations, see this edit summary legend. They can be confusing for new contributors. If you believe a Wikipedia policy or guideline justifies the change then you may include a link to it in your explanation. Give reasons for the change, if you think other editors may be unclear as to why you made it. Summarize the change, even if only briefly even a short summary is better than no summary.
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. 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. Providing an edit summary helps prevent that kind of error. (If the edit summary itself violates privacy or other policies, see the Fixing section below.) However, realistically, when a major edit (e.g., addition or deletion of a substantial amount of article text, or a substantial rewrite) doesn't have an edit summary, some busy editors might not assume good faith and revert the change without evaluating it properly.
Editors should not revert an otherwise good edit because of a missing or confusing edit summary good editors may simply have forgotten, or a confusing edit summary may have been the result of an autofill mishap. Edits that do not have an edit summary are more likely to be reverted incorrectly, because it may not be obvious what the purpose of the edit was. In appropriate circumstances, a summary can be quite brief (" ce" and " rvv" for example).Īccurate summaries help other contributors decide whether they want to review an edit, and to understand the change should they choose to review it. It is a good practice to provide a meaningful summary for every edit, especially when reverting (undoing) the actions of other editors or deleting existing text otherwise, people may question your motives for the edit.
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