pshinghal wrote:

Hi, I'd like to work on this, but I've never fixed bugs before. Can someone guide me?

(In reply to Tsee from comment #0)

Currently, when adding a new section to a user or article talk page, the
section header automatically becomes the Edit Summary, and there is no
option to change that.

Tsee: I don't think this is correct anymore? I can edit the edit summary.
Or do I misunderstand something?

The new section header field is still the same as the edit summary field as described. What is there not to understand? You can also simple prove them in the HTML-source as the id is the same id="wpSummary".

There is nothing to fix, this is a feature. So I propose to WONTFIX because the new sections edit don't need an extra edit summary.

Detaching from T28312 as they are orthogonal issues. If I understand correctly, the feature requested in this task is that on the edit form for "New section", there be a separate input field for a custom edit summary (instead of the default edit summary for new sections which is > My heading: added new section.

I do not know the use case of the original reporter or what kind of edit summary they'd like to provide in such cases, but the act of creating a section called X seems adequately summarised by stating "Adding section X".

Given there've been no other reports of this since 2006, I'll close this for now. Ultimately though, it's a product decision. So if you find this and feel the same need, I'd recommend re-opening or filing a new task, providing that use case, and tagging Editing-team.