Shortcut WT:SHORTDESC I preferred the use of "national flag" as short description for conventional flag articles of UN member states. For organizational...

I can’t seem to find any way to edit short descriptions of an article. I made a typo on one and I want to fix it, but it seems odd that there’s no obvious...

my knowledge), I was reverted here with the edit description "DOB is unnecessary for short description". Any comments? MB 16:04, 19 April 2020 (UTC) It...

only exists as a short description because it is the default import from Wikidata (which has a need for this universal description). On the English Wikipedia...

this been discussed somewhere? I see no positive value in adding "short description|Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson...

In instances where "{Short description | none}" is used why even have the template at all on the page? It's literally just adding unnecessary strain on...

the lede, and the short description gadget also duplicates information imported from Wikidata to be used for the short description. We are even encouraged...

River, Arizona. I think noreplace is in effect: see Module:Settlement short description#L-30. Certes (talk) 22:19, 24 June 2022 (UTC) It should override,...

Category:Short description matches Wikidata (ideally case-insensitive) Category:Short description is different from Wikidata Category:Short description with...

longer as effective as it used to be for finding pages lacking a short description. While this is highly gratifying as an indicator that we are getting...

sit back, and wait. Surely a maintenance category Pages with long "short description" or somesuch would be more efficient. On the supply side, adding a...

justification for mass-adding {{short description}} to articles. You have to follow the link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions#History to find that. I...

states such as California or Texas. I have been creating and updates short descriptions for institutions, so it reads something like "Public university in...

limit has been imposed on short descriptions, apparently without broad community consensus. Each short description should: be short – no more than about 40...

Shouldn't the short description for the page about short descriptions be an excellent example? The current "Brief phrase saying what a page is about"...

Hi short description experts, if you're interested some Italian foods are without short description (e.g., gelo di melone). JacktheBrown (talk) 20:35,...

Please read the background and history of the {{short description}} at Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions, where I think you will find that the subject...

tautological, description. Andy Dingley (talk) 12:58, 11 November 2018 (UTC) @Onel5969: @Andy Dingley: one of the possible uses of the short description is as...

page - the stuff on it isn't policy. But, the consensus is to use short descriptions locally. Idk how to say that here without making it seem like the...

(User:SD0001/cat-all-shortdescs.js) using which you can see at a glance the short descriptions of all pages in a category (well, not all, but of the 200 which are...

Short descriptions are sufficiently unfamiliar, that I think it would be good to automatically have a thread on the talk page when one has been added (at...

description; so one can go to their article page if one wants to add a {{short description}} to override it; or so one can go to their Wikidata item if one wants...

talk:Wikidata/2017 State of affairs (and archives) The RfC on the short descriptions magic word (archived at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_145)...

short descriptions and whether local consensus or precedence overrides broader agreements on the purpose and style recommended for short descriptions...

have a short description in line with what's described in WP:SHORTDES. In particular, the short description Should provide a very brief description of the...

'Adding [Wikipedia:Short description|short description]]: $2', to 'sdh-summary-adding': 'Adding [[Wikipedia:Short description|short description]]: $2', It is...

fixes en dashes in short descriptions. PS. if somebody wants to create a bot that changes hyphens to en dashes in short descriptions, here's a quick regex...

this case, I think 3 of the 5 top articles benefit from having a short description -- I have no idea who Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Álvarez are, and...

short description: "None", overriding Wikidata description "<Wikidata description>" the description would say: Adding intentionally blank local short...

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