Jim Dixon 55104

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Short descriptions

Thank you for adding Short descriptions to articles. However, many of these descriptions have been too long – the current guidelines at WP:SDSHORT advise a limit of around 40 characters. Please read the full guidelines at WP:SDCONTENT — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 16:54, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

@GhostInTheMachine OK, I'll do that (again) but I'd also like to point out that the guidelines say somewhere that a description should NOT start with a capital letter, whereas, if you actually try to create a description without a capital, you'll get a warning saying that the description SHOULD start with a capital letter. I don't recall anything about 40 characters. Is it possible that you and I are looking at different guidelines? I'll try to look when I get home, but for the time being, I haven't figured out how, on my phone, to have two different Wikipedia pages open at once. I'm afraid if I leave this page, I'll lose everything I've typed so far. Jim Dixon 55104 (talk) 18:28, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

The guidelines are WP:SDSHORT for the 40 characters and WP:SDFORMAT for starting with a capital letter — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

When I use the Wikipedia app on my phone, it doesn’t display any URL for the various pages, and I don’t even know if it’s possible to take screenshots on my phone, so the only way I know to show you what I’m talking about is to tell you step by step how to get to the page I was using.

On the main page press the “Edits” button.

On the next page, press “LEARN MORE”.

This takes me to a web page in my browser, which does display the URL:

https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Suggested_edits

The content is quite different from the content of the page you gave me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Short_description#SDSHORT

The former page says:

“Article descriptions should ideally fit on one line, and be between two to twelve words long. They are not capitalized unless the first word is a proper noun, and do not normally begin with initial articles (a, an, the).”

It says nothing about a character count. 12 words should be about 60 characters. OK, maybe some of my descriptions have been over 60 characters. I will gladly correct them if there’s only a way I can find them again. I want to do this right. Jim Dixon 55104 (talk) 18:41, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Sadly, the advice at Suggested edits is not correct for the English Wikipedia. I will try to trigger some sort of correction. Here, we have disconnected from Wikidata and "our" Short descriptions generally start with a capital letter and should be limited to about 40 characters. This page lists your edits — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 13:03, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

You are still adding quite a lot of long Short descriptions — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 12:59, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

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"Listed"

While I know in some countries, "listed" refers to a heritage register, it is not unambiguous more broadly. So I think it's better to say "heritage-listed" to avoid confusion with other reasons that houses appear on lists. 03:56, 29 January 2023 (UTC) Kerry (talk) 03:56, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

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Looking at their above discussion from months ago, they seem to edit with the mobile app. The issue is the app has only a few edit summaries and this looks to be just editing short descriptions. The crazy thing is that the edit summaries are automated on desktop but the mobile app is still catching up on things. – The Grid (talk) 20:44, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

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