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* It's good practice to always leave a short comment about what work we did in the [[Help:edit summary|edit summary]] (the text entry field just above the {{key press|Save page}} and {{key press|Show preview}} buttons).
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: It's good practice to always leave a short comment about what work we did in the [[Help:edit summary|edit summary]] (the text entry field just above the {{button|Publish changes}} and {{button|Show preview}} buttons).
: This helps other editors tell at a glance what you have done. Sometimes, without an edit summary, your work may be considered ''thoughtless'' or ''belligerent'', and be undone.
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: This helps other editors tell at a glance what you have done. Sometimes, without an edit summary, your work may be considered <em>thoughtless</em> or <em>belligerent</em>, and be undone.
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: Summaries are also especially useful when reviewing [[Help:page histories|page histories]], to see without the need to load and visually [[parse]] each [[Help:diff|diff]], what each of possibly thousands of edits changed.

Latest revision as of 11:37, 1 August 2019

It's good practice to always leave a short comment about what work we did in the edit summary (the text entry field just above the Publish changes and Show preview buttons).
This helps other editors tell at a glance what you have done. Sometimes, without an edit summary, your work may be considered thoughtless or belligerent, and be undone.
Summaries are also especially useful when reviewing page histories, to see without the need to load and visually parse each diff, what each of possibly thousands of edits changed.