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Wikidata item descriptions are not subject to Wikipedia's policies or recommendations, and in practice are often too long and intricate for use as Wikipedia short descriptions (see WP:SDSHORT, above). There are technical differences, too: for example, short descriptions normally start with an uppercase letter whereas Wikidata item descriptions ...
Wikidata maintains its own texts which are not linked in any way with Wikipedia short descriptions (although Short description helper can display the Wikidata text to help editors construct a suitable description for Wikipedia). Wikipedia page Short descriptions and Wikidata item descriptions serve different purposes and are not required to be ...
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 ...
If there is no local short description but there is a Wikidata description, the gadget will instead show that in pink, with an option to import it to Wikipedia (capitalising the first letter). By default, adding short descriptions to an article also adds the description to Wikidata if Wikidata has no description. This can be changed in the ...
No description. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status sometimes sometimes Any value will change "adds an automatically generated short description" to "sometimes adds an automatically generated short description". Use for templates that only generate short descriptions under particular conditions. Boolean optional indirect indirect For templates that ...
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions#Auto-generated and bot-generated descriptions for more info. These manual short descriptions aren't necessarily "errant"; in cases where the automatic short description isn't ideal, it is recommended to manually override them. Liu1126 14:02, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Short description is different from Wikidata (4,030,175 P) Short description matches Wikidata (2,028,356 P) Short description with empty Wikidata description (173,670 P)
Pages in category "Pages with short description" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 317 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .