Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Edit summary legend/Quick reference (section)

:''This is a concise quick-reference of the most commonly used edit summary abbreviations. For a detailed explanation of these legends, see: Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Edit summary legend|Edit summary legend]]''.

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! width="22%" | Term
! width="24%" | Abbreviated
! width="54%" | Description
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| add
| ''+, add, addition'' 
| Addition of something
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| alphabetization
| ''alpha, abc''
| Alphabetization of a list
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| capitalization
| ''cap, capital, cpt, lc, lcase, uc, ucase''
| Fixing of capitalization
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| category
| ''+cat, -cat, cat, recat, re-cat''
| Addition, subtraction or fixing of a category
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| cleanup
| ''cl, clean, tidy''
| Many different kinds of small changes in a single edit.
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| comment
| ''cm, cmt, re''
| Addition of comment or reply
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| copyedit
| ''cpyed, ced, c/e, ce''
| [[WP:COPYEDIT|Copy edit]]
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| creation
| ''creation, new''
| Creation of a new article
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| disambiguation
| ''disambig, disamb, disam, dab, byp disambig''
| Addition of [[Wikipedia:disambiguation|disambiguation]] or removal of ambiguity
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| duplication
| ''dup, dupe''
| Removal of duplication
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| external link
| ''EL, xl, ext lk, ext lks, ext lnk, ext lnks, ext link, ext links, URL, http''
| Addition of external links
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| formatting
| ''fm, fmt, frmt, MoS, mos, MOS''
| Formatting, per [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]
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| short new text (full text)
| ''ft''
| Addition of short new text, which is fully given in this edit summary
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| grammar
| ''gr, gm, grmr''
| Fixing grammar 
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| headers
| ''head, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6''
| Fixing header markup or changing header wording
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| interwiki
| ''iwk, iw''
| Addition of interwiki links (between Wikimedia projects)
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| links
| ''lk'', ''lks'', ''lnk'', ''ln'', ''wikilink'', ''wl''
| Addition of internal (Wikipedia) links
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| merge
| ''mrg, mrgd, merged in''
| Article merge
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| miscellaneous
| ''misc''
| Use only when a more specific and more useful edit summary is not practical.
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| move
| ''mv, mov'' 
| Article move 
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| null edit
| ''null, nx, ø'' 
| Saving the page without changing anything, see [[Help:Dummy edit#Null edit|Null edit]].
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| punctuation
| ''punc, punct, pct'' 
| Fixing punctuation 
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| redirect
| ''rd, rdr, redir'' 
| Article redirect. Specify what article it redirects to.
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| redirect fix
| ''snap dbl rdr, fix redir'' 
| "Snapping" a double redirect: turning a double redirect into a single redirect.
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| references
| ''ref, refs''
| Adding or fixing source citation.
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| remove/delete
| ''-, rm, rmv, del'' 
| Removal of something
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| revert
| ''rv, rvt, rvrt''
| Revert to a previous edit
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| talk
| ''see talk'' 
|  Explanation of edit on the article's [[Wikipedia:Talk page|Talk page]]
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| spelling
| ''sp, typo, typos''
| Fixing of [[typo]]s or incorrect spelling.
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| wikify
| ''wfy, wky, wkfy''
| Formatting using [[wiki markup]] (as opposed to plain text or [[HTML]]) and add [[Wikipedia:internal link|internal link]]s to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia
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