Wikipedia:Edit summary legend/Quick reference

! width="22%" | Term

! width="24%" | Abbreviated

! width="54%" | 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, clean, tidy

| Many different kinds of small changes in a single edit.

| comment

| cm, cmt, re

| Addition of comment or reply

| copyedit

| cpyed, ced, c/e, ce

| Copy edit

| creation

| creation, new

| Creation of a new article

| disambiguation

| disambig, disamb, disam, dab, byp disambig

| Addition of disambiguation or 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, 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, lnk, ln, wikilink, wl

| Addition of internal (Wikipedia) 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, mov

| Article move

| null edit

| null, nx, ø

| Saving the page without changing anything, see Null edit.

| punctuation

| punc, punct, pct

| Fixing punctuation

| redirect

| rd, rdr, 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, rmv, del

| Removal of something

| revert

| rv, rvt, rvrt

| Revert to a previous edit

| talk

| see talk

| Explanation of edit on the article's Talk page

| spelling

| sp, typo, typos

| Fixing of typos or incorrect spelling.

| wikify

| wfy, wky, wkfy

| Formatting using wiki markup (as opposed to plain text or HTML) and add internal links to material, incorporating it into the whole of Wikipedia