User:Pdebee/Sample edit summaries

Introduction

The purpose of the present user page is to contain a list of sample edit summaries readily available for use when editing articles: I keep it open in a separate window and, when I am ready to save my changes, I switch to this list and select the appropriate entry to copy/paste into the edit summary field, thus saving me the time to type it all in. An additional benefit is that my edit summaries are therefore consistent and, I hope, clear when reviewed by other editors.

My edit summaries are structured as follows:

<action verb> + <target of action> + <, per MOS:SHORTCUT (optional)> + <: "specific quote from guideline" (optional)>.

One exception is the format of the edit summary I use when fixing typos:

TYPO: 'Choppin' > 'Chopin'.

Sample edit summaries with templates

• Activated/Deactivated {{in use}} & {{under construction}} templates.
• Added {{annual readership}} template.
• Added {{backwardscopy}} template (used on talk page to provide notice of reverse copying), per WP:COPYVIO.
• Added {{BLP sources}} template.
• Added {{BLP unsourced}} template.
• Added {{citation needed}} template to unsourced quotation, per WP:VERIFYOR.
• Added {{citation needed}} template alongside a red link, per WP:SOURCELIST.
• Added {{Clear}} template at the end of the previous section, to align section heading with left margin.
• Added {{Compact ToC}} template with "|short1|center=yes|seealso=yes|refs=yes|x=|z=" parameters.
• Added {{Compact ToC}} template with "|custom1=Å" parameter to display the 'ruotsalainen'.
• Added {{Copied}} template for attribution, per WP:ATT.
• Added {{Draft article}} template, per WP:DRAFT.
• Added {{Empty section}} template.
• Added {{EngvarB}} and {{Use dmy dates}} templates, for a European subject.
• Added {{Expand section}} template.
• Added __FORCETOC__ magic word, to force TOC to be displayed when less than four sections present, per WP:TOC.
• Added {{italic title}} template, to italicise only "Kalevala" in the article title.
• Added {{Italic title}} template, to italicise only "Macbeth" in the article title (Voodoo Macbeth). Also added "|italic title = no" in the infobox to fix error message, per Template:Infobox play.
• Added {{more citations needed}} / {{original research}} templates for more citations and/or warning of WP:OR.
• Added {{nee}} template to maiden name, per MOS:NEE.
• Added {{photo requested}} template. ({{photo requested|portrait|in=Ireland|of=Sam Henry}})
• Added {{plainlist}} template to align ref tag digits vertically.
• Added: Please consider providing edit summaries; thank you. {{subst:uw-editsummary}}
• Added {{Post-nominals}} template to replace wikilink.
• Added ref tag with {{Cite}} template.
• Added {{reqphoto}} template ({{reqphoto|actors and filmmakers}}).
• Added {{reqphoto}} template ({{reqphoto|musicians}}).
• Added {{reqphoto}} template ({{reqphoto|scientists and academics}}).
• Added {{reflist-talk}} template, to ensure the reference(s) are located within the appropriate section (i.e. not at the very end of the talk page).
• Added {{Short description}} template, per WP:SDNONE.
• Added {{sic}} template, per MOS:QUOTATIONS and MOS:SIC: "If there is a significant error in the original, follow it with {{sic}}".
• Added "sliver of space" {{' "}} template, per MOS:QWQ: "For marks in immediate succession leave a sliver of space".
• Added {{stub}} template (Word count = 454 < 500 words, on July 17, 2020), per WP:STUBDEF.
• Added {{civil-rights-movement-stub}} template.
• Added {{stub}} template, per WP:STUBSPACING: "The stub template is placed at the end of the article. Leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it.".
• Added {{translated page}}, per WP:HOWTRANS.
• Added {{Unreferenced}} template.
• Added {{unreferenced section}} template.
• Added {{user sandbox}} template.
• Added {{Userspace draft}} template.
• Added {{WikiProject Anthroponymy}} template in talk page.
• Adjusted '|website=' to {{url}}.
• Applied {{&approx}} template, since the two sources mention: "1 week" (= 6-to-8 shows) and "2 shows" ({{&approx|10}})
• Applied {{Cite book}} template in 'Publications' section, per WP:MOS-BIBLIO#Template: "{{Cite book}} may be used to format bibliography entries".
• Applied {{Cite book}} template in 'Further reading' section, per MOS:FURTHER: "Publications listed in further reading are cited in the same citation style used by the rest of the article.".
• Applied {{Div col}} template to display each section with three columns.
• Applied all template, per MOS:EMPHASIS.
• Applied {{Icelandic name}} template, per MOS:PATRONYMIC.
• Applied {{lang}} template to italicise "suomi" and "suomen kieli", per MOS:FOREIGNITALIC.
• Applied title case and language template, per MOS:FOREIGNTITLE: ''{{lang|fr|[[Fleurs d'amour, fleurs d'amitié]]}}''.
• Applied {{nowrap}} template, to prevent end-of-line wrap.
• Applied spaced en dash {{snd}}, per MOS:DATERANGE: "in cases where at least one item on either side of the en dash contains a space".
• Applied square brackets template (e.g. '{{bracket}}') to pipe a nickname inserted within quotation: "Jack [Merivale]" (where "Jack" = John Merivale), per MOS:BRACKETS.
• Applied {{Track listing}} template, per WP:FILMSOUNDTRACK.
• Applied {{Use American English}}, for an article on a US topic.
• Applied {{Wikt}} template to jeune premier.
• Changed 'Notes' section heading to 'Explanatory footnotes', to mirror the initials of the {{efn}} template.
• Changed 'References' section layout to three columns. ({{reflist|20em}})
• Converted a bare url into a {{Cite web}} template, for consistency throughout the article.
• Converted a bare ref tag into {{Cite}} template.
• Converted basic ref tag to {{cite court}} template (with some empty parameters for future updates) for consistent use of {{cite}} templates throughout the article, per MOS:CITEVAR.
• Deactivated ':Category' templates in draft, per WP:DRAFTNOCAT.
• Fixed {{Cite web}} template: added missing 'title=' and corrected 'website='.
• Imbedded the date within the {{circa|1940}} template to display a thinner space after 'ca'.
• Italicised "mother of all trades" using {{em}} template, per MOS:WAW.
• Relocated punctuation after {{harv}} templates, per Template:harv.
• Removed {{fact}} template, per MOS:LEADCITE, since the provenance of the moniker "The Great Agnostic" is now explained in section "‎Oratory and free thought".
• Removed {{notability}} template, per WP:NALBUM criterion #1: "Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent from the musician or ensemble who created it.".
• Removed stub template, per WP:STUBDEF: "[R]emove stub tags from any article with more than 500 words." (Word count = xxx, on xx xxx, 2020).
• Replaced <centre></centre> obsolete ref tags with {{center}} template.
• Replaced 'circa' (word) with {{circa}} template, per MOS:CIRCA.
• Replaced {{cn}} template with {{Cite}} template & restored content, now properly sourced.
• Replaced {{oed}} template (which requires registration) with {{Wikt}} template for der Stahlhof.
• Requested deletion of one of my obsolete user pages, using the {{db-u1}} template.
• Updated vital dates with {{Birth date}} and {{Death date and age}} templates.
• Warned user claiming nonexistent typos: {{subst:Uw-disruptive1|Wikipedia:Typo Team/works completed|Finally, please remember to update the [[Wikipedia:Typo Team/works completed]] page only <u>after</u> you have fixed typos, and then only for genuine typos fixed in pages that are actual Wikipedia [[WP:ARTICLE|articles]], this being the main purpose of the Typo Team. Thank you for your cooperation.<!-- Template:uw-disruptive1 --><br />~~~~}}

Sample edit summaries linked to guidelines

• Added birth/death years in the lead (without date labels, since full vital dates are already mentioned in the body of the article), per MOS:BIRTHDATE.
• [Added comma group:]
  • Added comma after geographical reference, per MOS:GEOCOMMA.
  • Added comma between coordinate adjectives.
  • Added comma for apposition, per MOS:COMMA.
  • Added comma(s) in large numbers, per MOS:DIGITS.
  • Added punctuation, per MOS:HOWEVER: "When the word 'however' is an adverb meaning 'nevertheless', it should be preceded by a semicolon and followed by a comma".
  • Added/Corrected punctuation, per MOS:HOWEVER: "When the word 'however' is a conjunction meaning in 'whatever manner', or 'regardless of how', it may be preceded by a comma but not by a semicolon, and should not be followed by punctuation.".
  • Added second comma around a parenthetical phrase used as an aside.
  • Added serial comma, per MOS:SERIAL.
• Added full stops/periods to "a.m.", per MOS:TIME.
• Added 'Further reading' section, per MOS:LAYOUT.
• [Added hyphen(s) group:]
  • Added/Corrected hyphenation in ISBN number, per Pattern for English language ISBNs & isbn=: "Hyphens in the ISBN are optional, but preferred."
  • Added hyphen to "arch-segregationist", per MOS:HYPHEN: #2, "To link prefixes with their main terms in certain constructions (quasi-scientific, pseudo-Apollodorus, ultra-nationalistic)".
  • Added hyphen to "four-year fight", per MOS:UNITNAMES & MOS:HYPHEN: #3, "Values and units used as compound modifiers are hyphenated only where the unit is given as a whole word; when using the unit symbol, separate it from the number with a non-breaking space ( )."
  • Added hyphens to "n-year-old child", per MOS:HYPHEN: #3, "compound modifiers used as adjectives before the nouns they qualify ("n-year-old child", "hand-fed turkeys", "Gandhi-like appearance")".
  • Added hyphens to "14-feet-high", per MOS:UNITNAMES & MOS:HYPHEN: #3, "compound modifiers used as adjectives before the nouns they qualify".
• Added indentation, per WP:THREAD.
• Added "known as ..." between commas, per WP:QUOTENAME: "Also acceptable are formulations like "Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli", when applicable."
• Added missing blank space after three unspaced dots, per MOS:ELLIPSIS: "Wikipedia's style for an ellipsis is three unspaced dots (...). Generally, use a non-breaking space before an ellipsis, and a regular space after it".
• Added parentheses around ellipses for material omitted from a quotation, per MOS:ELLIPSIS.
• Added period/full stop to image caption with a verb, per MOS:CAPTION: "...if any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then every sentence and every sentence fragment in that caption should end with a period."
• Added readable text between square brackets to bare url, per WP:BAREURLS.
• Added reference to a stand-alone list entry, per WP:LISTVERIFY: "Stand-alone lists are subject to Wikipedia's content policies and guidelines for articles, including verifiability and citing sources."
• Added required reference, per WP:MINREF.
• Added semicolon at the end of list items & full stop at the end of the last one, per MOS:LISTCASE.
• Added stub second spacing line, per WP:STUBSPACING: "The stub template is placed at the end of the article. Leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it. (One blank line leaves the stub category notice butted up against any preceding navigation template, it takes two blank lines in the edited text to produce one blank line in the displayed text.)".
• Added "the" in "the 1640s", per MOS:DECADE.
• Added two spacing lines, per WP:STUBSPACING: "The stub template is placed at the end of the article. Leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it. (One blank line leaves the stub category notice butted up against any preceding navigation template, it takes two blank lines in the edited text to produce one blank line in the displayed text.)".
• Added wikilinks, per WP:PERSONNEL: "A personnel section should be included under a primary heading "Personnel"... The names should always be linked if an article exists."
• [Adjusted date group:]
  • Adjusted 'access-date=' date format in cite template, per WP:CITESTYLE: "avoid all-numeric date formats other than YYYY-MM-DD, because of the ambiguity concerning which number is the month and which the day.".
  • Adjusted date format, per MOS:BADDATE.
  • Adjusted date format, per MOS:BADDATE: "Do not use ordinals (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)".
  • Adjusted date format for consistency, per MOS:DATEUNIFY.
  • Adjusted date format to abbreviated month to shorten column width, per MOS:DATEFORMAT.
  • Adjusted date format to European/UK/Finnish date style, per MOS:DATETIES.
  • Adjusted two-digit ending years to non-abbreviated years in date ranges, per MOS:DATERANGE.
• Adjusted section/table heading, per WP:HEADERS: "Use sentence case; do not include the subject's name, flag icons, and questions in a header."
• Applied bold face to the group's individual member names, per MOS:PSEUDONYM.
• Applied bold face, per description list: "... terms and definitions, metadata topics and values, questions and answers, or any other groups of name-value data."
• Applied Brian Boulton's format of parameter spacing in {{cite}} templates (see Australasian Antarctic Expedition).
• Applied bulleted list consistently, per WP:ELCITE.
• Applied capitalisation guidelines, per MOS:TITLECAPS.
• Applied colon(s) and semicolon(s), per MOS:COLON/MOS:SEMICOLON.
• Applied colon, per MOS:COLON: before "a list of items that has just been introduced."
• [Applied dashes group:]
  • Applied parenthetical mdahes (—) to "clarify the sentence structure when there are already commas", per MOS:EMDASH.
  • Applied parenthetical mdahes (—) correctly, per MOS:EMDASH: "An em dash is always unspaced (without a space on either side)".
  • Applied single, spaced ndash ({{snd}}), per MOS:ENDASH: "instead of a colon".
  • Applied spaced ndashes to "clarify the sentence structure when there are already commas", per MOS:ENDASH.
  • Applied unspaced mdahes for consistency throughout this article, per MOS:EMDASH: "use either unspaced em dashes or spaced en dashes, with consistency in any one article".
• Applied double quotation marks to track title/minor work, per MOS:MINORWORKS.
• Applied double quotation marks to newsletter title, per MOS:MINORWORKS.
• Applied 'dmy' date format, per MOS:DATETIES.
• Applied full name, per MOS:SAMESURNAME: "If an article about a person mentions another person with the same surname who is not related by family or marriage, subsequent mentions of the other person should use the full name".
• Applied lower case, per MOS:EMPHCAPS.
• Applied lower case, per MOS:THECAPS.
• Applied lower case to rank, per MOS:MILTERMS.
• Applied "non-breaking space before an ellipsis, and a regular space after it" ({{nbsp}}... ), per MOS:ELLIPSIS.
• Applied pipe syntax to hide a disambiguation qualifier, per WP:FIXDABLINKS.
• Applied sentence case, per MOS:COMMONNAMES.
• Applied sentence case, per MOS:LISTCAPS.
• Applied sentence case in column heading, for consistency throughout the table and per MOS:HEADINGS (section: "Heading-like material").
• Applied sentence case in section headings, per MOS:HEADINGS.
• Applied square brackets (e.g. '[text]') to indicate editorial replacements and insertions within quotations, per MOS:BRACKET.
• Applied title case to title of work, per MOS:TITLECAPS.
• Applied units of measurement as full unit names instead of unit symbols at first use, per MOS:UNITNAMES.
• Changed '|class=stub' to '|class=start' (Word count > 500 words), per WP:STUBDEF.
• Changed birth name to bold font and de-italicised, per MOS:CHANGEDNAME.
• Changed content from US English > UK English, per MOS:COMMONALITY, since dates are in European/UK format.
• Changed first name(s) to surname(s), per MOS:SURNAME.
• [Changed 'integer' group:]
  • Changed 'two' > '2', per MOS:NUMNOTES: "Sport scores and vote tallies should be given as figures, even if in the zero-to-nine range".
  • Changed '7' > 'seven', per MOS:NUMERAL: "Integers from zero to nine are spelled out in words."
  • Changed integers greater than '9' to numerals/words, per MOS:NUMERAL: "Integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in words (...)".
• Changed 'Northern Ireland' > 'Ireland', per MOS:IMOS BIOPLACE: "The place of birth, residence and/or death of people who were born, lived or died before 1921 in what today is Northern Ireland should be given simply as 'Ireland'."
• Changed 'PHD' > 'PhD', per MOS:ABBR#Abbreviations widely used in Wikipedia.
• Changed section heading from 'Bibliography' to 'Works', per MOS:BIB.
• Changed section heading to 'Filmography', per MOS:FILMOGRAPHY.
• Changed square brackets to parentheses around ellipses (e.g. '(...)') for material omitted from a quotation, per MOS:ELLIPSIS.
• Combined related sentences to avoid single-sentenced paragraph(s), per MOS:PARA.
• Conform to WP:CITEVAR.
• Consolidated multiple occurrences of {{cite book}} templates for the same source using <ref name="..." /> and {{rp}} template, per MOS:IBID.
• Converted existing inline 'note' (bracketed in a ref tag) into a footnote, also using a {{cite book}} template for the source, for consistency throughout the article, per MOS:CITEVAR.
• Converted pseudo-headings to section headings & removed wikilinks, per MOS:HEADINGS.
• Converted REDIRECT (linking to an album that lists a track of this title) to an article about the TV mini-series with this title, per WP:RTOA.
• Converted ref tags to {{cite}} templates for consistency throughout the article, per WP:CITESTYLE.
• Created 'Biography' section by separating existing, detailed content from the lead section, per MOS:LAYOUT.
• Created 'Notes' section to contain the pronunciation IPA tags, per MOS:PRONPLACEMENT.
• De-capitalised common word(s), per MOS:COMMONNAMECAPS.
• De-capitalised a job title, per MOS:JOBTITLES.
• De-capitalised articles, prepositions and coordinating conjunctions shorter than five letters in titles of works, per WP:NCCAPS and MOS:TITLECAPS.
• De-capitalised 'The', per MOS:NICKNAMETHE.
• De-capitalised 'The' from a band name, per MOS:THEMUSIC.
• De-italicised a track title and applied double quotation marks instead, per MOS:MINORWORKS.
• De-italicised existing content, per MOS:NOITALQUOTE: "It is normally incorrect to put quotations in italics."
• De-italicised proper name(s), per MOS:ITALICS.
• De-italicised roles, per MOS:BADITALICS.
• De-italicised single(s) title(s) and applied double quotation marks, per MOS:MINORWORKS.
• De-italicised and added wikilink to "Bonnie Prince Charlie", with double quotation marks, per MOS:NICKNAME.
• Expanded ref tag with 'cite book' template for consistency throughout the article, per MOS:CITEVAR.
• Italicised album/film/major work title(s), per MOS:MAJORWORKS.
• Italicised album title, per MOS:MAJORWORKS. Added double quotation marks to song title, per MOS:MINORWORKS. [This edit summary is for cases when I perform both tasks in a single edit.]
• Italicised foreign words, per MOS:FOREIGNITALIC.
• Reformatted lead sentence, per MOS:LEGALNAME.
• Reformatted list of books, per WP:MOS-BIBLIO#Books in English.
• Reformatted notes as "(label, date) – notes", per MOS:DISCOGRAPHY.
• Relisted existing content in alphabetical order, per MOS:SEEALSO: "The list should be sorted either logically, chronologically, or at least alphabetically.".
• Relisted existing content in chronological order, per MOS:FILMOGRAPHY.
• Relisted existing content in chronological order, per MOS:DISCOGRAPHY: "Ordered from oldest to newest".
• Relisted existing disambiguation page entry as primary topic to appear at the top, per MOS:DABPRIMARY
• Relocated 'Awards' section, per WP:WPMAG.
• Relocated 'Bibliography' section ahead of 'References' and renamed it to 'Works', per MOS:LAYOUT.
• Relocated citation(s) from the lead section to the body of the article, per MOS:LEADCITE.
• Relocated comma misplaced within a quotation, per MOS:INOROUT: "Do not follow quoted words or fragments with commas inside the quotation marks, except where a longer quotation has been broken up and the comma is part of the full quotation."
• Relocated box-type templates to the beginning of the last section of the article, per MOS:LAYOUTEL.
• Relocated 'Certification' section ahead of 'References', per WP:DISCOGSTYLE#Per-release layout: #8. "Certifications of shipments or sales by recording industry associations".
• Relocated citations, per MOS:HEAD ("Citations should not be placed within or on the same line as section and subsection headings.").
• Relocated existing content about the film score into the 'Production' section, per MOS#FILM#Production.
• Relocated existing, parenthetical content between commas for apposition, per COMMA#Parenthetical phrases.
• Relocated existing quote >40 words into a quote template, per WP:QUOTE.
• Relocated foreign name spelling to the lead section, per MOS:BIRTHDATE: "born" label used to introduce birth name.
• Relocated inline 'notes' to a new "Explanatory footnotes" section, now using {{notelist}}, {{efn}} and embedded {{harvnb}} templates, per WP:EXPLNOTE & {{efn}}. (For an example, see John R. Buckmaster.)
• Relocated nickname within lead section, per MOS:NICKNAME.
• Relocated punctuation after the quotation mark, per MOS:LQ: "Include terminal punctuation within the quotation marks only if it was present in the original material".
• Relocated punctuation after the quotation mark, per MOS:LQ: "Do not follow quoted words or fragments with commas inside the quotation marks".
• Relocated ref tags after punctuation, per MOS:PUNCTREF.
• Relocated ref tags before dashes, per MOS:REFPUNCT: "Ref tags are placed before dashes, not after."
• Relocated ref tags before closing parenthesis, per MOS:REFPUNCT: "Where a footnote applies only to material within parentheses, the ref tags belong just before the closing parenthesis."
• Relocated 'See also' section ahead of 'Notes', per MOS:LAYOUT.
• Relocated 'Works' section as an appendix, per MOS:SECTIONORDER.
• Relocated wikilink(s) to the first occurrence(s) of a repeated item, per MOS:DUPLINK.
• Removed '|access-date=', per WP:ELCITE: "... access dates are not appropriate in the external links section."
• Removed '|access-date=', per MOS:FURTHER & WP:ELCITE: "Any links to external websites included under "Further reading" are subject to the guidelines described at Wikipedia:External links." & "... access dates are not appropriate in the external links section."
• Removed 'Retrieved (date)', per WP:ELCITE: "... access dates are not appropriate in the external links section."
• Removed adverb, per MOS:OP-ED.
• Removed 'alma_mater' parameter: the Hollywood Professional School was not an "institution of higher education", per Template:Infobox person.
• Removed apostrophe after date, per MOS:DECADE.
• Removed blank line(s) or break(s), per WP:LISTGAP.
• Removed bold face, per MOS:BOLD/MOS:NOBOLD and MOS:BADEMPHASIS.
• Removed category template, per MOS:CATORDER: "By convention, category declarations are placed at the end of the wikitext, but before any stub templates ...").
• [Removed citation group:]
  • Removed citation(s) from lead section, per MOS:LEADCITE.
  • Removed citation to a fan site/blog, per WP:UGC.
  • Removed citation to perennial website, per WP:ELPEREN.
  • Removed citation using Facebook/Myspace/Twitter/etc. as a source, per WP:SOCIALMEDIA.
  • Removed citation using Find a Grave, per WP:USERGENERATED.
  • Removed citation using geni.com, per WP:RSPSOURCES.
• Removed comma before 'Jr.', per MOS:JR: "When the surname is shown first, the suffix follows the given name. When the given name is omitted, Removed omit the suffix, except where the context requires disambiguation."
• Removed content exhibiting editorial bias, per WP:NPOV.
• Removed content relying on IMDb, per WP:USERGENERATED: "Content from websites whose content is largely user-generated is also generally unacceptable:... IMDb."
• Removed content per WP:NOTPROMOTION: "Wikipedia articles about a company or organization are not an extension of their website or other social media marketing efforts."
• Removed content unnecessarily detailed, per WP:NOT and WP:UNDUE.
• Removed dab page entry, per WP:DABDD: "Don't include entries without a blue link."
• Removed date of birth from BLP article, per WP:BLPPRIVACY: "Consensus has indicated that the standard for inclusion of personal information of living persons is higher than mere existence of a reliable source that could be verified."
• Removed detail from caption, per MOS:CAPTION: "Captions should be succinct."
• Removed double quotation marks from blockquote, per MOS:BLOCKQUOTE: "Do not enclose block quotations in quotation marks".

• Applied blockquote template, per MOS:BLOCKQUOTE: "Format a long quote (more than about forty words or a few hundred characters, or consisting of more than one paragraph, regardless of length) as a block quotation, indented on both sides. Block quotations should be enclosed in
  ."

• Removed dual-nationality adjectives ("American-British"), per WP:FILMLEAD: "If the film's nationality is singularly defined by reliable sources (e.g., being called an American film), it should be identified in the opening sentence. If the nationality is not singular, cover the different national interests later in the lead section."
• Removed end punctuation and set dates in parentheses, per WP:BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
• Removed entry (in 'See also') already linked in the article's body, per MOS:NOTSEEALSO.
• Removed entry (in 'Further reading') duplicated from 'References' section, per MOS:FURTHER.
• Removed entry (in 'External links') duplicated from 'References' section, per MOS:ELLAYOUT.
• Removed excessive linking, per MOS:DABBLUE.
• Removed external link already used as a citation, per WP:ELDUP.
• Removed external link to Facebook/Twitter account, per WP:ELNO.
• Removed external link to perennial website, per WP:ELPEREN.
• Removed external link to self-acknowledged fan site, per WP:LINKSTOAVOID: #11. "Blogs, personal web pages and most fansites".
• Removed external link used in body of this article, per WP:ELPOINTS (item #2) and WP:ELNEVER (item #1).
• Removed first name(s), per MOS:SURNAME: "After the initial mention, a person should generally be referred to by surname only".
• Removed hatnote from an article listed in a dab page, per WP:NOTAMB: "It is usually preferable not to have a hatnote when the name of the article is not ambiguous."
• Removed honorific prefix ("Dr.") after first mention, per MOS:SURNAME.
• Removed period/full stop from image caption without a verb, per MOS:CAPTION: "... sentence fragments which should not end with a period."
• Removed period/full stop from list entries, per MOS:BULLETLIST: "No terminal punctuation is used with sentence fragments."
• Removed possessive ('s) after plural noun ending with pronounced "s", per MOS:PLURALNOUN.
• Removed pre-emptive content, per WP:CRYSTAL.
• Removed pseudo-heading (misuse of description list markup ";"), per MOS:PSEUDOHEAD.
• Removed publicity and WP:OR.
• Removed 'publisher=' from 'cite web', per Cite web: "Having both 'publisher' and 'website' (a.k.a. 'work') is redundant in many cases."
• Removed puffery/promotional content, per WP:PEACOCK.
• [Removed red link group:]
  • Removed list entry without article, per WP:Write the article first.
  • Removed red link from item unlikely to warrant an article, per WP:Write the article first.
  • Removed red link entry, per WP:Write the article first: "no red links in lists".
• Removed 'References' section heading from dab page, per WP:DABREF.
• Removed '|relative=' content, per Template:infobox person#Parameters: "Names of siblings or other relatives; include only if independently notable or particularly relevant."
• Removed redundant use of birth name in boldface from second occurrence, per MOS:BOLD: "highlight the first occurrence of the article's title word or phrase in the lead section".
• Removed second terminal punctuation mark, per MOS:CONSECUTIVE.
• Removed secondary release date(s) from infobox, per WP:FILMRELEASE.
• Removed speculative content, per WP:NOR.
• Removed speculative birth date and added ‘died’, per MOS:DOB.
• Removed speculative and uncorroborated connection to another work, per WP:NOR.
• Removed superscript from ordinal, per MOS:ORDINAL.
• Removed time-relative term, per MOS:RELTIME.
• Removed underline, per MOS:BADEMPHASIS ("do not underline text or it may be confused with links on a web page").
• Removed unconnected content, per WP:IRRELEVANT and WP:VERIFYOR.
• Removed unnecessary capital(s), per MOS:EMPHCAPS and MOS:BADEMPHASIS.
• Removed unnecessary double quotation marks, per MOS:BADEMPHASIS.
• Removed unnecessary italics, per MOS:NOITALIC and MOS:BADEMPHASIS.
• Removed unrelated content, per WP:OFFTOPIC: "... articles contain no irrelevant (nor only loosely relevant) information."
• Removed unsourced content, per WP:SOURCES.
• Removed '|website=' link; was at "blabla.com/" but now gives "Page 404" error. No 'official website' found via Google search either.
• Removed wikilink(s) from content already linked earlier in the body of the article, per MOS:REPEATLINK.
• Removed wikilink(s) from content without an article, per WP:Write the article first.
• Removed wikilink(s) from dab page, per MOS:DABPRIMARY & MOS:DABENTRIES: "Do not wikilink any other words in the line."
• Removed wikilink from proper name(s)/term(s) deemed familiar to the reader, per MOS:OVERLINK.
• Removed wikilink(s) and pseudo-heading(s), per MOS:HEADINGS.
• Removed wikilink from section heading, per MOS:NOSECTIONLINKS: "Section headings should not contain links".
• Removed wikilink(s) to dab page, per MOS:OVERLINK: "Readers should not be directed to disambiguation pages unless there is no other option but to do so."
• Removed wikilink(s) to dab page, per WP:DPWL: "Ideally, article namespace pages should not link to disambiguation pages [...]; instead, links should go directly to the appropriate article."
• Removed circular wikilink, per MOS:CIRCULAR: "Do not link to pages that redirect back to the page the link is on."
• Renamed 'Sources' section heading (listing uncited sources) to new section heading of 'Further reading', per MOS:LAYOUT.
• Re-ordered existing sections, per MOS:LAYOUT.
• Replaced "1600s" > "after 1600", per MOS:APPROXDATE.
• Replaced "and" with "&", per MOS:&: "Retain ampersands in titles of works or organizations, such as Up & Down or AT&T".
• Replaced "&" with "and", per MOS:&: "In normal text and headings, use "and" instead of the ampersand (&)".
• Replaced "?" > "unattested dates", per MOS:APPROXDATE: "Do not use a question mark (1291?), because it fails to communicate the nature of the uncertainty".
• Replaced "\" with "/", per MOS:SLASH: "Do not use the backslash character ( \ ) in place of a slash."
• Replaced ":" > "*" in bulleted list, since ":" should only be used in "Description (definition, association) lists", per MOS:DEFLIST.
• Replaced bare url with equivalent cite template, per WP:BAREURL.
• Replaced bare & dead urls with equivalent {{cite web}} templates, for consistency throughout the article, per WP:BAREURL..
• Replaced 'Bibliography' heading with new section heading of 'Further reading', per MOS:LAYOUT.
• Replaced 'Bibliography' heading with 'Sources', per MOS:NOTES, since there is already a 'Bibliography' section higher up in the article, for her own work.
• Replaced comma with colon, per MOS:COLON: "A colon may also be used to introduce direct speech enclosed within quotation marks".
• Replaced curly apostrophes with straight ones, per MOS:PUNCT.
• Replaced external link to Dutch wiki with interwiki link.
• Replaced first name(s) with surname(s), per MOS:SURNAME: "After the initial mention, a person should generally be referred to by surname only".
• Replaced header cell marks (!) with normal data cell marks (|) plus <strong>, to hide the column headers when the table is collapsed, per Basic table markup summary.
• Replaced double hyphen with emdash, per MOS:EMDASH: "Do not use a double hyphen (--) to stand in for a dash."
• Replaced hyphen with endash in a date range, per MOS:DATERANGE.
• Replaced hyphens with endashes, per MOS:FILMOGRAPHY/MOS:DISCOGRAPHY.
• Replaced names of children with 'n', per Template:Infobox person: "Typically the number of children (e.g., 3); only list names of independently notable or particularly relevant children."
• Replaced number sign (#) with 'number' or {{Abbr}} template, per MOS:NUMBERSIGN
• Replaced number symbol (№) with 'No.' in {{Abbr}} template, per MOS:NUMBERSIGN: "do not use the symbol №.".
• Replaced parentheses with commas, per MOS:COMMA.
• Replaced parentheses with parenthetical mdahes (—) to "clarify the sentence structure when there are already commas", per MOS:EMDASH.
• [Replaced quotation marks group:]
  • Replaced curly single/double quotation marks with straight ones, per MOS:CQ.
  • Replaced curly single quotation marks with double straight ones in track title, per MOS:CQ and MOS:MINORWORKS.
  • Replaced guillemet with double quotation marks, per MOS:STRAIGHT.
  • Replaced double quotation marks with single ones and added {{' "}}, per MOS:QWQ: "For a quotation within a quotation, use single quotes" and "For marks in immediate succession leave a sliver of space".
  • Replaced double quotation marks with single ones, per MOS:SINGLE ("Simple glosses that translate or define unfamiliar terms").
• Replaced 'passed away' > 'died', per MOS:EUPHEMISM.
  • Replaced slanted quotation marks with straight ones, per MOS:STRAIGHT.
• Replaced self-referencing link with meaningful words, per WP:CLICKHERE/How to link: 'If there are no meaningful words that can be used for the link, a link with no text is preferred to using self-referential link text, such as "click here" or "this link".'
• Replaced spaced dots with unspaced dots, per MOS:ELLIPSIS: "Wikipedia's style for an ellipsis is three unspaced dots (...). Generally, use a non-breaking space before an ellipsis, and a regular space after it".
• Replaced 'year=' > 'date=', per Template:cite book: "The usage of this parameter is discouraged...".
• Reset dates in parentheses, per WP:BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
• Restored bold face allowed in 'description (definition, association) lists', per MOS:DLIST
• Restored 'died' over 'passed away', per MOS:EUPHEMISM.
• Restored heading for the 'External links' section, per MOS:SECTIONORDER.
• Restored second spacing line, per WP:STUBSPACING: "The stub template is placed at the end of the article. Leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it."
• Restored UK English per MOS:COMMONALITY, since dates are in European format (dmy).
• Restructured existing content into 'lead' & 'body' sections, per MOS:LAYOUT.
• Reverted: although born in London (see Infobox), Irvine is notable for his contributions to traditional music since he moved to Ireland in 1962, per MOS:CONTEXTBIO.
• Reverted contentious material claimed by self-published source, per WP:SPS.
• Reverted image, per MOS:IMAGERELEVANCE (surrealist automatism is about human creativity, not computer-generated images).
• Reverted to dmy date format, per MOS:DATETIES.
• Reverted, per WP:DERRY: "Use Derry for the city and County Londonderry for the county in articles."
• Reverted, per WP:LINKSTOAVOID: #11. "Blogs, personal web pages and most fansites".
• Reverted, per WP:REDNOT: "mass addition of redlinks".
• Reverted unsourced content, per WP:NOR.
• Reverted unsourced content, per WP:CITE and WP:RS.
• Reverted unsubstantiated, controversial claim and defamatory content, per WP:SELFPUB.
• Reworded, per WP:NOR.
• Reworded, per WP:NEUTRAL.
• Simplified the piping of a pluralised word, per MOS:PIPESTYLE.

Sample edit summaries not linked to guidelines

• Added 'author-mask=1/editorn-mask=1' parameter(s) in {{citation}}: Empty citation (help) template(s).
• Added 'Further reading' section.
• Added missing space after comma.
• Added parentheses around instruments played, for consistency throughout the article.
• Added spaces between {{cite}} parameters to ease editorial viewing.
• Adjusted {{cite web}} parameters for <ref name="LATimesMay2000">.
• Adjusted TOD clock to BST ('+1').
• Adjusted TOD clock to GMT ('+0').
• Clarified 4x ref tags FROM: names=":n" TO: names="Authorxxxx" (where "n" = '0', '1', '2' and '3', and "xxxx" = year shown in 'date=' parameter).
• Clarified, using the existing, cited source.
• Commented out templates, until draft article is moved into main space.
• Completed 'publisher=' name in full.
• Corrected date format error in ‘|access-date=’, causing a red error displayed in citation.
• Corrected date ranges that displayed as links because of initial digits (tel. Numbers, etc.!) instead of letters.
• Corrected ISBN for ...
• De-italicised Liberty Lobby (an organisation, not a newspaper).
• De-italicised newspaper title(s) to fix red error message(s) (no longer needed in 'publisher=', 'newspaper=', 'work=', etc.)
• De-italicised serial comma.
• Fixed url in 'via=' parameter in cite web template.
• Inhibited back matter templates in draft article.
• Inhibited talk page templates in draft article.
• Inserted missing double quotation marks around name coded for 'name=' in ref tag.
• Merged two related short sentences into one.
• Primed talk page with the usual/appropriate template(s) for talk page headers.
• Re-coded existing citation.
• Reduced TOC limit.
• Reinstated sourced content, after unexplained removal.
• Relisted {{cite}} template parameters in vertical format, for ease of editorial viewing/editing.
• Relisted in alphabetical order.
• Relisted in chronological order.
• Relocated existing content to maintain chronology.
• Relocated existing content per the cited source.
• Relocated long-form ref tag, per our agreed LDR format.
• Relocated subject/adverb closer to its relevant verb.
• Relocated subordinate phrase closer to its object.
• Relocated verb next to infinitive marker.
• Removed '|df= mdy-all' parameter (not needed when global template is at the top of the article).
• Removed double quotation marks from a phrase which is not a verbatim quote.
• Removed entries for which there is no evidence of typos being corrected in articles.
• Removed external link(s) that does/do not take the reader to any content relevant to the subject.
• Removed link to a website that does not provide a source for the relevant subject. Added template instead.
• Removed link to artist article from album title.
• Removed parenthetical content.
• Removed red links from item(s) unlikely ever to have an article.
• Removed space before citation tag.
• Removed underscores ('_').
• Removed unnecessary parentheses.
• Removed unnecessary piping from 'English guitar'.
• Removed unnecessary quotation marks.
• Removed unnecessary spacing line(s).
• Replaced ' that' > 'who', when referring to people.
• Replaced 'work=' and 'publisher=' by 'newspaper=', for citations sourced from newspapers.
• Reverted good faith edit, to retain EngVarB for a European subject.
• Reverted good faith edit by IP editor: an article must go through a collective review process before being tagged as GA.
• Reverted good faith edit by IP editor: the added link was to the album when it should have been to the DVD, for which there is currently no article.
• Reverted good faith edit by IP editor, who added content without citing a reliable source.
• Reverted unexplained removal of legitimate content suitably corroborated by existing source.
• Reverted unexplained removal of legitimate hatnote.
• Reworded existing content: brought verb next to the subject and removed parentheses around a subordinate phrase.
• Reworded existing content for improved readability.
• Reworded for a more encyclopaedic tone.
• Reworded for verb tense.
• Reworked the punctuation, for greater clarity.
• Tidied up all cite parameters and added spacing between parameters to ease editorial viewing.