diff --git a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/config/ScalaSettings.scala b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/config/ScalaSettings.scala
index 07efc18a772b..1129d6bbe0e3 100644
--- a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/config/ScalaSettings.scala
+++ b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/config/ScalaSettings.scala
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ private sealed trait WarningSettings:
   val XfatalWarnings: Setting[Boolean] = BooleanSetting("-Werror", "Fail the compilation if there are any warnings.", aliases = List("-Xfatal-warnings"))
   val WvalueDiscard: Setting[Boolean] = BooleanSetting("-Wvalue-discard", "Warn when non-Unit expression results are unused.")
   val WNonUnitStatement = BooleanSetting("-Wnonunit-statement", "Warn when block statements are non-Unit expressions.")
+  val WenumCommentDiscard = BooleanSetting("-Wenum-comment-discard", "Warn when a comment ambiguously assigned to multiple enum cases is discarded.")
   val WimplausiblePatterns = BooleanSetting("-Wimplausible-patterns", "Warn if comparison with a pattern value looks like it might always fail.")
   val WunstableInlineAccessors = BooleanSetting("-WunstableInlineAccessors", "Warn an inline methods has references to non-stable binary APIs.")
   val Wunused: Setting[List[ChoiceWithHelp[String]]] = MultiChoiceHelpSetting(
diff --git a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/parsing/Parsers.scala b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/parsing/Parsers.scala
index 6c2e69658927..4880c7704f0e 100644
--- a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/parsing/Parsers.scala
+++ b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/parsing/Parsers.scala
@@ -3997,6 +3997,14 @@ object Parsers {
         if (in.token == COMMA) {
           in.nextToken()
           val ids = commaSeparated(() => termIdent())
+          if ctx.settings.WenumCommentDiscard.value then
+            in.getDocComment(start).foreach: comm =>
+              warning(
+                em"""Ambiguous Scaladoc comment on multiple cases is ignored.
+                     |Remove the comment or make separate cases to add Scaladoc comments to each of them.""",
+                comm.span.start
+              )
+
           PatDef(mods1, id :: ids, TypeTree(), EmptyTree)
         }
         else {
diff --git a/tests/warn/i16610.check b/tests/warn/i16610.check
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4eb69b5c551a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/warn/i16610.check
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+-- Warning: tests/warn/i16610.scala:12:2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+12 |  /** // warn
+   |  ^
+   |  Ambiguous Scaladoc comment on multiple cases is ignored.
+   |  Remove the comment or make separate cases to add Scaladoc comments to each of them.
diff --git a/tests/warn/i16610.scala b/tests/warn/i16610.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7657d23b7fd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/warn/i16610.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+//> using options -Wenum-comment-discard
+/**
+ * Description of enum
+ */
+enum MyEnum {
+
+  /**
+   * Description of case 1
+   */
+  case MyCase1
+
+  /** // warn
+   * Description of case 2 and 3
+   */
+  case MyCase2, MyCase3
+}
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