Help:Edit summary

Also known as H:ES, WP:ES, WP:EDS, WP:EDSUM, WP:CHANGE, WP:EDIT

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Encyclopedic overview

An edit summary is a brief explanation of an edit to a Wikipedia page. Summaries help other editors by (a) providing a reason for the edit, (b) saving the time to open up the edit to find out what it's all about, and (c) providing information about the edit on diff pages and lists of changes (such as page histories and watchlists).

How to add an edit summary

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Help:Edit summary” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.