Editing Help:Edit summary (section)

===Section editing===
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When adding a new section to a discussion page with the "new section" button, the section title is used as the edit summary. When [[Help:Section#Section editing|editing an existing section]], the section title is inserted at the beginning of the edit summary, enclosed with /* and */ marks, for example /* External links */. Details of the edit should be added after this text. 

When viewing such an edit summary, the section name will appear with a small arrow next to it: <span class="autocomment">[[#Foo|''→External links'']]</span>. Click the arrow or section name to view the section (if the section no longer exists, the link will simply take you to the top of the page).

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.<ref>It is possible to manually include links to multiple sections using the /* */ syntax&nbsp;– this may be useful when editing several sections at once.

The edit summary:

: {{Inputbox|/* Foo */ test /* Bar */ test}}

should be rendered as:

: <span class="comment"><span class="autocomment">[[#Foo|→Foo]]:</span> test <span class="autocomment">[[#Bar|→Bar]]:</span> test</span>.

See [{{fullurl:Help:Edit_summary|diff=384901084&oldid=384900839}} this edit].</ref>

'''Note''': Tools that track edit summary usage by a user (such as [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/editsummary/en.wikipedia.org XTools]) do not consider the auto-added part as a summary; that's any part within /* and */. You're encouraged to provide real edit summary, whether the editbox contains such auto-summary or not.
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