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The short description may appear directly in the wikicode for the page, via the {{Short description}} template, or may be transcluded automatically from a template such as an infobox. Disambiguation pages and list articles both make use of transcluded descriptions, and those do not normally need to be edited manually.
Creates a short description for a Wikipedia page, which is displayed in search results and other locations. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Description 1 The short description of the article or 'none'. It should be limited to about 40 characters. Example Endangered species of South American fish Content required No ...
Template:Template short description is used to create templated short description. It performs extra checks to avoid undesirable short descriptions from being added by templates and if the following conditions are satisfied it will add the first unnamed parameter as a short description: There is no {{Short description}} template on the page
Convenience template that returns the position of the phrase {{short description within the article wiki-text, or nothing if the phrase does not exist. It can take an optional parameter |title= (or the first unnamed parameter) which is the title of the page to test. The title defaults to the current page if not supplied.
As the short description is article content, any bot or template generated short description may be overridden with a better short description by an editor. If there is a dispute about whether the new description is better, discuss on the article's talk page.
A short description, with the {{Short description}} template; A disambiguation hatnote, most of the time with the {} template (see also Wikipedia:Hatnote § Hatnote templates) No-output templates that indicate the article's established date format and English-language variety, if any (e.g., {{Use dmy dates}}, {{Use Canadian English}})
This template attempts to get the short description of a page. It will only match the first short description on a page, whether displayed or not. Use {{Get short description|page=page|nomatch=nomatch}} e.g.
Place {{User Short descriptions}} on your user page This page was last edited on 26 August 2018, at 22:42 ... Template: User Short descriptions.