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Semantic Intentions

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Copy Editing

|rephrase; improve grammar, spelling, tone, or punctuation.

Clarification

|specify or explain an existing fact or meaning by example or discussion without adding new information.

Simplification

|reduce the complexity or breadth of discussion; may remove information.

Point of View

|rewrite using encyclopedic, neutral tone; remove bias; apply due weight.

Refactoring

|restructure the article; move and rewrite content, without changing the meaning of it.

Fact Update

|update numbers, dates, scores, episodes, status, etc. based on newly available information.

Elaboration

|extend/add substantive new content; insert a fact or new meaningful assertion (beyond a simple "fact update").

Verifiability

|add or modify references and citations; remove unverified text.

Disambiguation

|re-link from a disambiguation page to the specific page.

Wikification

|format text to meet style guidelines (see Wikipedia:Glossary#Wikify), e.g. add links or remove them where necessary; convert bold text to proper headers, etc.

Vandalism

|deliberately attempt to damage the article.

Counter-vandalism

|revert or otherwise remove vandalism.

Process

|start or continue a wiki process workflow such as tagging (or un-tagging) an article with cleanup, merge or deletion notices.

Other Intentions

|none of the above, please leave a note.

Objects

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Wikilink

| Links to another page within English Wikipedia. E.g. Dr. Smith

Interwiki Link

| Links to a page on another Wikimedia project website, such as Meta or another language. E.g. :mw:Extension:OAuth

External Link

| Links that use absolute URLs to point towards external domains. E.g. [https://wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Portal]

Reference

| A reference tag and/or a citation template. E.g. {{cite book| ... }}

Category

| A category link. E.g. Category:Hats

Heading

| Section headings. E.g. == Heading 2 ==

Table

| Wikitext table code and/or the content contained within. E.g., {|, |,

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| Template

| Template transclusions. E.g. {{citation needed}} or {{Infobox|...}}

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| Cleanup tag

| A template that notes of an issue in the page. E.g. "reads like an advert" or "lacks sources" or "COI involved"

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| Process tag

| A template for deletion or merge process. E.g. {{Prod}} or {{CSD}}.

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| List

| Bulleted, numbered or description list

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| Markup

| Elements used for formatting content (excludes tables, templates and special characters). E.g. ' (bold), (italics) and HTML tags.

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| Special Characters

| Mathematical characters, greek characters, etc. E.g. Σ (Σ) or · (·;)

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| Media

| Include Media Files (Images, Audio, Video) objects. Usually in the form of a File:... link, but sometimes also appears in a template as a parameter filename = File:....

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| Body Copy

| The main article or text part (as distinct from the headings, subheadings, and graphics)

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| Data value

| Numbers, True/False/yes/no, dates or time. E.g. January 3rd, $150, 2015/01/02, {{Infobox president|is_current=yes}}, etc.

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| Punctuation

| Body copy punctuation characters that are intended to appear in text. E.g. periods, commas, asterisks, brackets, colon, dash, etc.

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| Information

| Factual or meaningful information content. E.g. one could change "body copy" without changing the "information" contained.

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Actions

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Insertion

|insert new content

Deletion

|delete content

Modification

|modify content