Help talk:Edit summary

Default Summery
Is there any option to store a default summary (changed from the user's end)? For example, this week I was working only on the infobox, so the edit summary would be 'Infobox corrected/updated. - IJohnKennady (talk) 17:05, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Add description on Wikipedia App doesn't allow edit summaries
Hello! I notice that when I add descriptions to articles using the Android Wikipedia app, no edit summary is possible. Anybody know who to talk to about getting this fixed? "Short description added" or something equivalent would be all that's needed. DoctorMatt (talk) 04:40, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * @Doctormatt I don't, but I too wish it did. If I add a description via the Suggested Edits feature a default summary gets added, but if I use Add description on an article page, the summary is left blank. I try to remember to add it by editing the introduction instead, but frequently forget. Musiconeologist (talk) 02:10, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. Oh, I think a request can be made here .  I'll have to try that.  Cheers! DoctorMatt (talk) 04:25, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Inadvertent scolding
I've caught myself writing summaries in the form of infinitival clauses like Avoid saying x or Put titles in italics. I mean simply that I've reworded an ambiguous sentence so it can't say x, or that I'm italicising some titles. But it can easily be read instead as an imperative addressed to a previous editor, so it comes across as "Don't say x, you idiot!" or "For crying out loud, won't you ever learn that book titles are italicised?"

It's convenient, but maybe a bad habit. So I wonder whether a very brief mention would be in order, maybe as part of the point about civility. (Something about awareness of how the summary might be read. I'm happy to come up with something.)

When something you add is edited very soon afterwards, it's easy to feel as though the next editor is 'marking your work' (sometimes without being at all qualified to), when really all they're doing is integrating it into the article or noticing a typo that you didn't. Musiconeologist (talk) 17:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

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