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The short description of a Wikipedia article is a brief phrase, with a specific format, designed to work together with the title to indicate the article's scope.; Every article whose title is not already fully self-explanatory should have a short description.
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 ...
The easiest way to add and edit short descriptions on desktop is to make use of Shortdesc helper. Alternatively, in the source code editor insert the short description template to the very top of the page, above all other article headers and templates. The format to use is {{Short description|Your short description here}}.
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}})
For advice on writing style and formatting in a bullet-point format, see Wikipedia:Styletips; For summaries of some Wikipedia protocols and conventions, see Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts; If you don't want to use wikitext markup, try Wikipedia:VisualEditor instead; To ask a question, see Wikipedia:Questions to locate the appropriate venue(s)
Other templates and gadgets attempt to extract short descriptions from pages by explicitly searching for the transclusions of the {{Short description}} template. For example, {{Annotated link}} searches for the template in its uppercase "Short description" and lowercase form "short description"; either form is acceptable. See related RfD.
Short description is a concise explanation of the scope of the page. See Wikipedia:Short description and Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions for more information. Disambiguation links should be the first visible elements of the page, before any maintenance tags, infobox, or image; if a reader has reached the wrong page, they would want to ...
Very short sections and subsections clutter an article with headings and inhibit the flow of the prose. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheadings. Headings follow a six-level hierarchy, starting at 1 and ending at 6. The level of the heading is defined by the number of equals signs on each side of the ...