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Typing the summary is unimportant when a user creates a new page; leaving the summary area blank, the edit summary in this case is automatically set to "Created page with", followed by around 200 characters of the entered wikitext (the maximum summary length), with a trailing ellipsis.
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When an anonymous editor blanks all or part of a BLP, this might be the subject attempting to remove problematic material. Edits like these by subjects should not be treated as vandalism; instead, the subject should be invited to explain their
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template, this most likely means that an editor allowed the software to generate the summary out of convenience. If the listed target or replacement text is reasonable, no further action is required.
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Additionaly, when you use section editing, the section title will appear in the edit summary box in light grey text between comment tags, and used as your summary unless you alter or replace it.
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Removing nearly all content on a page, and possibly replacing it with new content (criteria: at least 90% of original content removed, and a new page size not exceeding 1,000 bytes)
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in the absence of evidence to the contrary. Keep in mind that the edit summary was not typed by the user, so it should not be interpreted as such evidence.
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a deliberate description on the part of the user (who might not even have realized that they were harming Knowledge (XXG)).
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A summary indicative of an inappropriate edit (such as the blanking or replacement of legitimate content) is probably
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Auto edit summaries exist for several actions, if the user fails to provide an edit summary:
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Removing all content on a page, resulting in an empty page with no content (criteria: new
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Automatic edit summaries include the following. The text may be edited by administrators:
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Replacing entire page with other text, removing more than 90% of the content of a page
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are created by the MediaWiki software for certain actions. These summaries appear in
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Creating a new page (the first 200 characters of the article appear in the summary)
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a past revision of the page (by clicking "undo" in the
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with content (criteria: page size greater than 0 bytes)
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Knowledge (XXG):Automatic edit summaries
information page
encyclopedic article
Knowledge (XXG)'s policies or guidelines
consensus
vetting
Shortcuts
WP:AES
WP:AUTOSUMM
H:AES
Knowledge (XXG):Indentation § Outdenting
recent changes
page histories
contributions lists
Reverting
redirect
copyvio
vandalism
assume good faith
WP:BLPEDIT
page size
MediaWiki:Autosumm-blank

MediaWiki:Autosumm-replace

new page
MediaWiki:Autosumm-new

empty page
MediaWiki:Autosumm-newblank

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