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Citation

Template:Citation needed span

Quotation Styles

Style 1

“

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.

”

— Author

Style 2

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.

— Honette, Honette's Secret Source

Style 3

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.

— Honette's Secret Source

Style 4

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.

— Honette, Title, Publication

Style 5

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.

— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

More Styles

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Icons

Code	Result	Code	Result
{{doing}}	Doing...	{{TakeNote}}	Note:
{{done}}	Done	{{Duck}}	Looks like a duck to me.
{{Checking}}	Checking...	{{2O\|1=Text. ~~~~}}	2nd opinion requested – Text. Honette ^(talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Discussing}}	Discussion ongoing...	{{Already done}}	Already done
{{Added}}	Added	{{Resolved\|1=Text. ~~~~}}	Resolved – Text. Honette ^(talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{WikiThanks}}	Thank you	{{MoreInfo}}	Additional information needed
{{Fixed}}	Fixed	{{Inprogress}}	In progress
{{Not done-t}}	✗ Not done	{{Redflag}}	Redflag
{{Done-t}}	Done	{{Removed}}	Removed
{{Not sure}}	Not sure	{{Resolved mark}}	Resolved
{{Thank you}}	Thank you	{{Reverted}}	Reverted
{{not done}}	Not done	{{Thank}}	Thanks
{{Not done and will not be done}}	N Not done and not likely to be done	{{Thataway\|WP:DRV\|2=~~~~}}	Wrong venue. Please move to WP:DRV – Honette ^(talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Isdoing}}	[[User:\|]] is doing...	{{Twomanrule}}	Review
{{Tobedone}}	Pending	{{Undone}}	Undone
{{Unlikely}}	Unlikely	{{Unnecessary}}	Unnecessary
{{Unrelated}}	Unrelated	{{subst:Verified}}	Verified
{{WPcrystalball}}	Wikipedia is not a crystal ball.	{{WQA in progress\|1=Text. ~~~~}}	Work in progress; comments welcome – Text. Honette ^(talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Works for me}}	Works for me	{{Working}}	Working
{{Agree}}	Agree	{{Accepted}}	Accepted
{{keypress\|Text goes here}}+{{keypress\|F2}}	`Text goes here`+`F2`

Check and cross marks v t e
Check marks		Cross marks
{{tick}} = {{tick\|20}} {{tick\|colour=purple}} {{tick\|color=cyan}} {{check mark}}	Y Y Y Y	{{cross}} = {{cross\|20}} {{Cross\|colour=orange}} {{Cross\|color=black}}	N N N
{{aye}} and {{Y}}	Y	{{nay}} and {{N}}	N
{{ya}}		{{na}}
{{yan}}		{{nan}}
{{check mark-n}}	Y	{{x mark-n}}	N
{{y&}}	✓	{{n&}}	✗
{{Chk}}	✓
{{yeac}}	Y	{{nayc}}	N
{{yeag}}	Yg	{{nayg}}	Ng
{{Mby}}	Y	{{nayd}}	N2
{{checked box}} {{ticked box}}		{{unchecked box}} {{unticked box}}
{{xed box}}		{{unexed box}}
{{question mark box}}	?
Other marks
{{n.b.}}	*	{{hmmm}}	?
{{bang}}		{{idkc}}	?
{{equc}}	=	{{cloc}}	clock
Most of the templates above are fully sortable in a `class="sortable"` table (each check mark is assigned an undisplayed "Y" and each cross mark an undisplayed "N").

Code	Result
{{Thankyou}}	Thank you
{{Thank You IP}}	A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalism. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia! Please consider creating an account for yourself!

Edit Semi-Protected

{{ESp}} is used for responding to requests for edits to semiprotected pages from Category:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests.

Code	Result
:{{ESp\|d}} ~~~~	Done
:{{ESp\|pd}} ~~~~	Partly done:
:{{ESp\|n}} ~~~~	Not done:
:{{ESp\|nfn}} ~~~~	Not done for now:
:{{ESp\|rs}} ~~~~	Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.
:{{ESp\|a}} ~~~~	Already done
:{{ESp\|?}} ~~~~	Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed.
:{{ESp\|q}} ~~~~	Question:
:{{ESp\|note}} ~~~~	Note:

Source

Inline messages

Code	Result	Code	Result
{{By whom}}	^{[by whom?]}	{{Examples}}	^{[example needed]}
{{Citequote}}	^{[quote needs citation]}	{{Full}}	^{[full citation needed]}
{{Citation broken}}	^{[full citation needed]}	{{Failed verification}}	^{[failed verification]}
{{Citation needed}}	^{[citation needed]}	{{Or}}	^{[original research?]}
{{Citation needed (lead)}}	^{[not verified in body]}	{{Season needed}}	^{[season and episode needed]}
{{Clarify}}	^{[clarification needed]}	{{Specify}}	^[specify]
{{Copyvio link}}	^{[infringing link?]}	{{Self-published inline}}	^{[self-published source?]}
{{Dead link}}	^{[dead link]}	{{Vague}}	^[vague]
{{Dubious}}	^{[dubious – discuss]}	{{Verify credibility}}	^{[unreliable source?]}
{{Elucidate}}	^{[further explanation needed]}	{{Verify source}}	^{[verification needed]}
{{Volume needed}}	^{[volume and issue needed]}	{{When}}	^[when?]
{{Where}}	^[where?]	{{Which}}	^[which?]
{{Who}}	^[who?]	{{Whom?}}	^{[according to whom?]}
{{Why}}	^[why?]	{{Year needed}}	^{[year needed]}
{{User:Honette/Template/Full_name}}	^{[full version needed]}	{{expand acronym}}	^{[expand acronym]}

Smilies

Different smilies can be made using parameters. for instance, {{=)|sad}} produces . The full list of parameters is as follows. Default (no parameter) is a simple smile.

parameter	produces		parameter	produces
1, smile			2, sad, frown
3, wink			4, blush
5, grin			6, surprise
7, tongue			8, confused
9, shade, shades			10, cry, crying, tears
11, lightbulb, idea			12, wink2
13, wink3			14, big-grin, biggrin
15, devil-grin, devil, evil			16, kiss
17, smirk			18, big-cry, bigcry, sob
19, glasses, nerd			20, angel
21, ttth			22, awesome
23, vsmile

Source: Template: =)

Discussions

Code	Result
{{outdent}}
{{Outdent2}}	(←)
{{Outdent\|6}}
{{tps}}	(talk page stalker)
{{ec}}	(edit conflict)
{{hat}} and {{hab}}	Closing a discussion.
{{collapse top\|Text goes here}} and {{collapse bottom}}	Putting text in collapsible box.

Presenting templates

Code	Result
{{tl\|template}}	{{template}} (linked, normal text style)
{{tlx\|template}}	`{{template}}` (linked, teletype text style)
{{tld\|template}}	`{{template}}` (not linked, teletype text style)
{{tlf\|template}}	{{template}} (not linked, normal text style)

Copy-editing and editing

Link	Description
Oxford Dictionaries	A list of British and American terms
Oxford Dictionaries	A "trusted" dictionary. Can select either World English or American English.

Code Result

This page is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (center, color, defense, realize, traveled) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This page is written in Australian English, which has its own spelling conventions (centre, colour, realise, program, travelled) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This page is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This page is written in Canadian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, centre, travelled, realize, analyze) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This page is written in New Zealand English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, analyse, centre, fiord) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This page is written in South African English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, analyse) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This page is written in British English with Oxford spelling (colour, realize, organization, analyse; note that -ize is used instead of -ise) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This page is written in Indian English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, analysed, defence, realise) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This page is written in Pakistani English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, travelled) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

This page is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

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This is a list of commonly used edit summary abbreviations. Find a more concise list at quick reference. Select from the box above for more abbreviations and terms.

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Most common

This is a concise reference of the most commonly used edit summary abbreviations.

Term	Abbreviated	Description
add	+, add, addition	Addition of something
alphabetization	alpha, abc	Alphabetization of a list
capitalization	cap, capital, cpt, lc, lcase, uc, ucase	Fixing of capitalization
category	+cat, -cat, cat, recat, re-cat	Addition, subtraction or fixing of a category
cleanup	cl, clean, tidy	Many different kinds of small changes in a single edit.
comment	cm, cmt, re	Addition of comment or reply
copyedit	cpyed, ced, c/e, ce	Copy edit
creation	creation, new	Creation of a new article
disambiguation	disambig, disamb, disam, dab, byp disambig	Addition of disambiguation or removal of ambiguity
duplication	dup, dupe	Removal of duplication
external link	EL, xl, ext lk, ext lks, ext lnk, ext lnks, ext link, ext links, URL, http	Addition of external links
formatting	fm, fmt, frmt, MoS, mos, MOS	Formatting, per Manual of Style
short new text (full text)	ft	Addition of short new text, which is fully given in this edit summary
grammar	gr, gm, grmr	Fixing grammar
headers	head, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6	Fixing header markup or changing header wording
interwiki	iwk, iw	Addition of interwiki links (between Wikimedia projects)
links	lk, lks, lnk, ln, wikilink, wl	Addition of internal (Wikipedia) links
merge	mrg, mrgd, merged in	Article merge
miscellaneous	misc	Use only when a more specific and more useful edit summary is not practical.
move	mv, mov	Article move
null edit	null, nx, ø	Saving the page without changing anything; see Null edit.
punctuation	punc, punct, pct	Fixing punctuation
redirect	rd, rdr, redir	Article redirect. Specify what article it redirects to.
redirect fix	snap dbl rdr, fix redir	"Snapping" a double redirect: turning a double redirect into a single redirect.
references	ref, refs	Adding or fixing source citation.
remove/delete	-, rm, rmv, del	Removal of something
revert	rv, rvt, rvrt	Revert to a previous edit
talk	see talk	Explanation of edit on the article's Talk page
spelling	sp, typo, typos	Fixing of typos or incorrect spelling.
wikify	wfy, wky, wkfy	Formatting using wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and add internal links to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia

Addition of category

cat

Meaning: A category to the page.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[[Category:Name of category]] (which puts a useful link directly into the edit summary)

Examples:

+cat [[Category:Mammals]] (added this category)
-cat [[Category:Zoology]] (deleted this category)

Addition of comment

cm, cmt, com, re

Meaning: I added a comment to this page.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the topic of the comment]

Examples:

cm noteworthiness
cmt: questioning noteworthiness
+com ft "I find this non-noteworthy."
re use of columns: necessary? (see Talk)

Addition of navigational template

navtemp

Meaning: I made a change involving a navigational template to this page.

Secondary text: none required

Example:

+navtemp (I added a navigational template)

Addition or rephrasing: brief text

ft

Meaning: I have added or rephrased the following brief bit of full text.

Secondary text (required):

[in quotation marks, the exact text in question]

Secondary text (encouraged):

[in quotation marks, the exact text that is being replaced]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Such specificity is extremely helpful to those viewing only the edit summary, since it may obviate the need to open the article's History page to obtain these details.

Note: only brief text should be so specified. For longer text, make use of the article's Talk page and note this in the edit summary. See below for Edit that is explained on the article's Talk page.

Examples:

ft "because of this event"
Added ft "Under these circumstances" to specify causation
Substituted ft "Under these circumstances" for "So"
Substituted ft "Due to these two events" for "So" to clarify the causative factors
See ft in Talk for change to "So"

Addition or rephrasing: longer text

+, add, addition, expand

Meaning: I have added or rephrased a longer bit of text in the article, and what follows is a summary.

Secondary text (required):

[a summary of the text in question]

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

+Future expeditions
add:Future expeditions (b/c important new plans have been made public)

May also be used to indicate that the user has added their support/opposition on consensus building; it is then usually preceded by the section name

Examples:

→ Support: +
→ Oppose: +me

Alphabetization

alpha, abc, sort

Meaning: I have put this list in alphabetical order.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the portion of the text alphabetized (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

abc second list in this section
alpha last column for consistency

Capitalization

cap, caps, capital, cpt, uc, ucase, lc, lcase

Meaning: I have fixed capitalization.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Specifically:

cap, capital, or cpt when there is a general fixing of capitalization.
caps when EVERY letter of a word is capitalized (e.g., ALL CAPS).
uc or ucase when uppercasing the first letter of a word.
lc or lcase when lowercasing the first letter of a word.

Common occurences:

Wikipedia's article titles are case-sensitive, except for the first letter of the article, which always appears as a capital letter. Also, according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style, except for compound proper nouns (such as "New York City Police Department") only the first letter of the first word in section headings should be capitalized.

Examples:

cap throughout this section for consistency
caps "NATO"
uc toys in the list that have proper (not generic) names
lc rest of title, per MOS

Cleanup

cl, cleanup, cu

Meaning: I have made some general 'tidying-up' edits.

Secondary text: none required

Useful when making many different kinds of small changes in a single edit.

Commonly includes:

small formatting fixes
spelling and grammar fixes
markup fixes
other such minor edits

Copy edit

copyedit, cpyed, ced, c/e, ce, mce

Meaning: I have done miscellaneous copy editing.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

It is encouraged that you specify the changes.

Examples:

copyedit: major reorganization, left original text
cpyed: from 'Tell Joe and I to ...' to 'Tell Joe and me to ...'
'It took 4 years to build...' → 'It took four years to build...' (per MOS)

Correction

cr

Meaning: I have made one or more copy editing corrections.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Often used when correcting one's own edits or correcting obvious mistakes.

Examples

cr my punctuation on previous edit
cr two instances of "were" → "where"
cr after session failed

Creation of a new article

creation, new

Meaning: I have created a new article.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[remarks or requests]

If there are remarks you wish to make, add them after two single dashes (-).

Examples:

creation
new
creation – NPOV check please
new – NPOV check please

Disambiguation

Edit that is explained on the article's talk page

see Talk, see talk

Meaning: I have discussed or explained this edit on the article's Talk page.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]
a wikilink to the talk page section

Examples:

see Talk for rephrased second paragraph
see talk re: columns (necessary?)
see Wikipedia_talk:Edit_summary_legend#Correction

Formatting

fm, fmt, frmt, formatting, MoS, mos, MOS, wf, wfy

Meaning: I have applied or adjusted formatting to this article.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

fm per MOS
fmt for consistency
frmt contents of column 2 for clarity

Grammar

gm, gr, grmr

Meaning: I have fixed the grammar of one or more sentences.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

gm last sentence
gr throughout
grmr in photo caption for clarity

Headers

head, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6

Meaning: I have fixed the header markup or changed the header wording.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

head cap
h2 repl ft "North America" with "United States"
h3 added "above sea level" to parallel h2 "below sea level"

Common occurrence:

This is often seen when an article has been incorrectly laid out with "level 3" headers at the top level (i.e., === text ===) instead of "level 2" headers (i.e., == text ==).

Last good version

LGV, lgv

Meaning: The last good version of the article.

Secondary text: none required.

Most often used with revert.

Links: external

EL, xl, ext lk, ext lks, ext lnk, ext lnks, ext link, ext links, el, URL, http

Meaning: I have added or removed an external link.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[URL/ URL name] (which puts the link directly into the edit summary)
[a description of the links in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

EL National Tractor Association
+xls: national union websites
added ext lnk The Shepherd (magazine) (for its numerous resources)
rm ext 2 most recent links (too broad for this article)

Links: internal

lk, lks, link, links, lnk, ln, wikilink, wl, dl

Meaning: I have created or removed a link from this Wikipedia article to another one.

Secondary text (required):

[[Wikipedia article name]] (which puts the link directly into the edit summary) or
'Wikipedia article name'

Secondary text (encouraged):

[a description of the links in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

It is preferred that the actual link(s) be included in the edit summary. This can be achieved by copying it from the edit box so that it appears in double brackets [[ ]]. Otherwise, name the link(s) between single apostrophes (').

This is especially useful when the link is to a new article, since Wikipedians watchlisting the current page are likely to be interested in the new page.

Examples:

lk: 'Train'
lks: 'snow', 'hail'
+wl in list: 'Train'
lnks for all State names
+lnk in list: 'Train' (after disambig)
wikilink [[train]] (new article)

Links: interwiki

iwk, iw

Meaning: I added one or more interwiki links to this page.

Secondary text (required):

{{Interwiki link name}} (which puts the link directly into the edit summary) or
'Interwiki link name'

Secondary text (encouraged):

[a description of the links in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

It is preferred that the actual link(s) be included in the edit summary. This can be achieved by copying it from the edit box so that it appears in curly brackets {{ }}. Otherwise, name the link(s) between single apostrophes (').

This is especially useful when the link is to a new material, since Wikipedians watchlisting the current page are likely to be interested in viewing it.

Examples:

iw: {{Wikiquote:Rabbits}}
+iwks: {{Wikiquote:Politics}} and {{Wikiquote:Feminism}}
rem iw for pictures (too broad)
added wikilink {{Wikipedia books|Soap}} (new material)

Manual of Style

MOS

Meaning: I have made edits to conform to the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

Secondary text: none required

Used with other edit summary elements.

Merge

mrg, mrgd, merged in

Meaning: I have merged one or more other articles into this article.

Secondary text (required):

[[Wikipedia article name]] (which puts the link directly into the edit summary) or
'Wikipedia article name'
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

It is preferred that the actual link(s) be included in the edit summary. This can be achieved by copying it from the edit box so that it appears in double brackets [[ ]]. Otherwise, name the link(s) between single apostrophes (').

Examples:

mrg: 'USA' & 'United States of America'
mrgd: [[USA]] and [[United States of America]]
merged in [[sheepherding]] and [[droving]] (after consenus, see Talk)

Miscellaneous

See Tweaks (on this page)

Move

mv

Meaning: I have moved one or more portions of the article to another location within the same article.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the new and old locations]
[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

mv for clarity
mv last sentence of first paragraph to start of second paragraph
mv ft "in the last decade" to start (per consensus, see Talk)

May also mean "I have added some material that comes from another article" but in that case merge is preferred.

Examples:

mv to 'United States' (mrgd)
mv from 'America'

Noteworthiness

nn

Meaning: Non-noteworthy text.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Example:

rmv nn cat video sentence

Null edit

null, nx, ø

Meaning: I have made a null or dummy edit.

Secondary text: none required

Although no change was made, the edit window was opened and the page re-saved.

This is occasionally necessitated by non-automated changes, such as those to templates included in the page.

Organization

org, reorg, order

Meaning: I have changed the order of sections or otherwise altered the organization (as opposed to the text) of the page.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[a description of the organization in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Example:

org History section by decade
order paragraphs: sequential

Original research

OR, NOR

Meaning: I believe something to be in conflict with the Wikipedia no original research policy.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Example:

del OR "subatomic particles" per policy
NOR: revert "Causation" section to lgv

Point of view

POV, NPOV

Meaning: I believe something to be in conflict with the Wikipedia neutral point of view policy.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Example:

del POV: ft "I hate cat videos"
NPOV: revert "Theories of causation" section to lgv

Punctuation

punc, punct, pct

Meaning: I have made edits to rectify punctuation.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Example:

punc ft "three cat video's worth" → "three cat videos' worth"
pct: del excessive commas (for flow)

Recategorization

re-cat, recat

Meaning: I have made changes to one or more pre-existing category links.

Secondary text (required):

[[Category:Category name]] (which puts the link directly into the edit summary) or
'Category name'

Secondary text (encourage):

[the reason or context for the change(s)]

It is preferred that the actual link(s) be included in the edit summary. This can be achieved by copying it from the edit box so that it appears in double brackets [[ ]]. Otherwise, name the link(s) between single apostrophes (').

This is especially useful when the link is to a new article, since Wikipedians watchlisting the current page are likely to be interested in the new page.

Examples:

re-cat 'America' to 'North America'
recat [[Category:America]] to [[Category:North American]] per consensus (see Talk)

Redirect

REDIRECT, rd, redir

Meaning: I have made this article redirect to another article.

Secondary text (required):

[[Wikipedia article name]] (which puts the link directly into the edit summary) or
'Wikipedia article name'

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the reason or context for the change(s)]

It is preferred that the actual link(s) be included in the edit summary. This can be achieved by copying it from the edit box so that it appears in double brackets [[ ]]. Otherwise, name the link(s) between single apostrophes (').

This is especially useful when the link is to a new article, since Wikipedians watchlisting the current page are likely to be interested in the new page.

Examples:

REDIRECT 'Cats'
rd [[Cats]]
redir [[Droving]] to [[Sheepherding]] (new article)

Reference

ref, refs

Meaning: I added or fixed one or more source citations.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[a description of which reference]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

ref distance to the Moon
+ref: cost of a gallon of milk (received consensus on source, see Talk)
fixd ref Rothlisber: date of publication

Removal of ambiguity

disambiguation, disambig, disamb, disam, dab, byp disambig

Meaning: I changed a wikilink to point to the appropriate disambiguation page.

Secondary text (required):

[[Wikipedia disambiguation page name]] (which puts the link directly into the edit summary) or
'Wikipedia disambiguation page name'

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the reason or context for the change(s)]

It is preferred that the actual link(s) be included in the edit summary. This can be achieved by copying it from the edit box so that it appears in double brackets [[ ]]. Otherwise, name the link(s) between single apostrophes (').

This is especially useful when the link is to a new article, since Wikipedians watchlisting the current page are likely to be interested in the new page.

Examples:

disambig [[Arm]]
disamb 'Shadow' (new page)
dab [[Shadow]] (new page)

Removal of text

-, rm, rmv, remove, del

Meaning: I have removed some text from the article.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

-cat video sentence
remove ft "Cat videos are artistic"
del paragraph 3: too broad for this article

Reply

reply, rep, re, r (Note: r is also used as Revert, so re is preferred here.)

Meaning: I have replied to another editor's comment.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

reply agreement
r ft "I wholeheartedly agree."
rep limiting the scope of this discussion (see Talk)

Revert

revert, rev, rv, r (Note: r is also used as Reply, so rv is preferred here.)

Meaning: I reverted this article to a previous edit.

Secondary text (required):

[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]

Examples:

revert accident
rv blanking (vandalism?)
rv: changes by User:Second user to last version by User:First user; see talk
rvs or rv/s (spam)
rv sock (sockpuppetry)
rvt or rvte (test edit)
rv unexpl del (unexplained deletion)
rvv or rv/v (vandalism) (Note: rvv in some fonts looks very similar to rw)

Sandbox

sandbox, Sandbox

Meaning: I made an edit to the Sandbox.

Secondary text: none required

This is especially useful information for Wikipedians checking the Recent changes, who may wish to ignore such changes.

Snap double redirect

snap dbl rdr, fix redir

Meaning: I turned a double redirect into a single redirect.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Spelling

sp, spl, spelling

Meaning: I corrected one or more spelling errors.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

sp throughout
spl "desparate" → "desperate"
spelling "colour" → "color" (per MOS:ENGVAR)

Tweaks

tweaks, tweak, twk, tw, misc, technicals, techs

Meaning: I made one or more minor copyediting changes.

Includes:

Making an article conform to the Wikipedia Manual of Style and to consensus
Removing stub messages
Adjusting categories
Fixing typos
Adding or fixing links
Adjusting the article's layout

More specific and useful edit summaries are preferred, but if that is not practical tweaks may suffice.

Typo

typo, typos, tpyo, tpyos, ty, tyop, tyops

Meaning: I fixed one or more typos.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

typo "errror" → "error"
typos in last sentence
tyop (my own error)

User experienced edit conflict

(ec), e/c, or (e/c)

Meaning: An edit conflict was experienced.

Secondary text: not required; when adding a comment, users can prefix their comment with the {{ec}} template to indicate this.

Whitespace

ws

Meaning: I made changes to whitespace.

Secondary text (encouraged):

[the full text or a description of the portion of the text in question (if not obvious)]
[the reason or context for the change(s)]

Examples:

ws in column 3 for alignment
ws: caption to image 7 (per consensus, see Talk)

Talk page stalkers

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User experienced edit conflict

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