Editing Chabadpedia:Short description (section)

== How to edit ==
=== Single page ===
The easiest way to create and edit short descriptions on desktop is to use the [[Chabadpedia:Shortdesc helper|Shortdesc helper]] gadget. This may be enabled in [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets|the Gadgets tab of your Preferences]] under the "Editing" section.

Alternatively, you can manually amend the {{tl|Short description}} template in the source editor. Short descriptions cannot be added with the [[VisualEditor]].

If you are editing manually on desktop and do not have Shortdesc Helper loaded, do not add the template ''solely'' because it seems to be missing from the wikicode. Descriptions are sometimes set by another template (such as an Infobox) elsewhere in the article. See {{section link||Why can't I see any short description?}} for more information.

If you are editing manually, do not start the template with a space — {{tnull|&nbsp;Short description...}} — as this may break other templates which search for {{tnull|Short description...}} in the text.

Always use the {{tl|Short description}} template itself and not any alias. See [[CB:SDNOALIASES]] in the template documentation.

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=== Placement ===
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Per [[MOS:ORDER]] and [[MOS:LEADORDER]], the template should be the very first element on the page. There is just one exception to this, namely redirects. If (unusually) you need to add a short description to a redirect, you should add {{tnull|Short description}} {{em|below}} <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT</nowiki></code>. For more information, see {{section link||Short descriptions on redirect pages}}. Placement is handled automatically if you are using [[Chabadpedia:Shortdesc helper|Shortdesc helper]].

=== By transclusion into multiple pages ===
Where a single short description (or rule for generating one) is suitable for multiple articles that all use the same template/infobox, the description can be transcluded from the template rather than being added one by one to each article. In that case {{tnull|Short description}} does not appear in the wikicode for the page.

Such transclusions are normally done after local consensus by template editors. {{tl|Template short description}} is available to simplify the process, and ensures that the resultant description doesn't exceed the recommended length even if a page editor adds some unusually long text to an infobox. All templates that generate a default description should include a <code><nowiki>|2=noreplace</nowiki></code> parameter so that the result can be overridden by a manually inserted instance that appears at the top of the wikicode (see {{phab|T193857}} for technical details). {{tl2|Auto short description}} should also be added to the documentation page so that the template gets added to [[:Category:Templates that generate short descriptions]].