Editing Chabadpedia:Short description (section)

=== 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]].