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A summary is not meant to reproduce the experience of reading or watching the work. In fact, readers might be here because they didn't understand the original. Just repeating what they have already seen or read is unlikely to help them. Do not attempt to re-create the emotional impact of the work through the plot summary.
The name or names given in the first sentence does not always match the article title. This page gives advice on the contents of the first sentence, not the article title. By the design of Wikipedia's software, an article can have only one title. When this title is a name, significant alternative names for the topic should be mentioned in the ...
In applying summary style to articles, care must be taken to avoid a POV fork (that is, a split that results in either the original article or the spinoff violating NPOV policy), a difference in approach between the summary section and the spinoff article, etc. Note that this doesn't mean that an article treating one point of view is ...
Creating a new page (the first 200 characters of the article appear in the summary) Adding, changing, or removing a redirect; Reverting a revision; 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.
(This fall-back position does not give unchallengeable primacy to that particular style during consensus discussion, nor give the editor who imposed that earliest style any more say in the discussion.) For retention of an article's established national variety of English (and potential reasons to change it), see § National varieties of English.
Actually, the description of the plot *does* need to follow the order in which events takes place; that's precisely what a plot is, as opposed to story. Kbrewer36 16:18, 26 December 2011 (UTC)kbrewer36 . In other words, Wikipedia has confused "plot" and "story." What's being called for here is a story summary, not a plot summary.
"rollback " (in green) is used to revert good-faith edits, so an edit summary is required. "rollback" (in blue) allows providing an edit summary without describing the edits as "good faith". "vandalism" (in red), which should only be used to revert obvious vandalism, since it does not allow providing an edit summary.
When a section is written in summary style, should it's name closely reflect the title of the article? This was the subject of a dispute over a summary-style section in the article Embassy of the United States, Mogadishu about its evacuation, for which the main article is Operation Eastern Exit, and whether the section title should be the operation name or a descriptive term such as "Closure ...