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-{{guideline|WP:CHANGE|WP:EDIT}}
-When you change a page, there is a small box with the words "'''Change summary'''" under the main change-box. It looks like this:
-{{EditOptions|align=center|width=90%|font-size=85%}}
-Whatever you type into this box will show up on the ''[[Special:RecentChanges|New changes]]'' page, in the page revision history, and in the [[meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using the Watchlist|watchlists]] of users who are watching that article. You can write up to 200 characters there.
-It is always good to write something in this box. This lets people know what you have changed. You can also say why you changed something. Some people use [[abbreviation]]s in their change summary. There is a list of abbreviations used at [[:en:Wikipedia:edit summary legend|edit summary legend]].
-When this box is left blank, the change summary sometimes [[:en:Wikipedia:Automatic edit summary|gets filled in by itself]], for example, it may say "Replaced content with (something)". This makes it very easy for others to see if an edit is [[wp:vandalism|vandalism]] and [[wp:rollback|roll it back]] at once.
 == More information ==
 * [[m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Edit summary|MediaWiki User's Guide: Edit summary]]