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Warning: Experienced users, especially those with many edits to make, will often use abbreviations in order to save time; for example, "rv" for "revert". Abbreviations should be used with care, although they save one editor time they may cost readers much more time to figure out what they mean, they can be confusing for inexperienced users, but they are generally fine for small edits such as formatting and grammar changes.
| 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, cleanup | Many different kinds of small changes in a single edit. |
| comment | cm, re | Addition of comment |
| copyedit | copyedit, cpyed, ced, c/e, ce | Copy edit |
| creation | creation, new | Creation of a new article |
| disambiguation | disambiguation, disambig, disamb, disam, dab, byp disambig | Addition of disambiguationor 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, formatting, 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, link, links, lnk, ln, wikilink, wl | Addition of internal (Wiki) 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, move | Article move |
| null edit | null, nx, ø | Saving the page without changing anything, see Null edit. |
| punctuation | punc, punct, pct | Fixing punctuation |
| redirect | REDIRECT, rd, 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, remove, del | Removal of something |
| revert | rv, revert | Revert to a previous edit |
| talk | see talk | Explanation of edit on the article's Talk page |
| spelling | sp, spelling, typo, typos | Fixing of Typos or incorrect spelling. |
| wikify | wikified, wikify, wiki, wfy, wky, wkfy | Formatting using Wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and add internal linksto material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia |
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