Editing Chabadpedia:Short description (section)

== Why not simply re-use Wikidata's item descriptions? ==
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Chabadpedia's short descriptions and [[:Wikidata:Help:Description|Wikidata's item descriptions]] serve different purposes, and their respective wordings are very often different: 

* A short description is Chabadpedia-specific and relates to an individual encyclopedia article here on the English Chabadpedia. It provides a brief indication of the field, an annotation, and a disambiguation in searches, not for any Wikidata item but for the encyclopedia article itself.
* In contrast, a Wikidata item description is designed to disambiguate Wikidata items with the same or similar labels and serves to characterise the Wikidata item, regardless of the content of any corresponding Chabadpedia article (or indeed whether a Chabadpedia article for the item exists at all).

Wikidata item descriptions are not subject to Chabadpedia's policies or recommendations, and in practice are often too long and intricate for use as Chabadpedia short descriptions (see [[CB:SDSHORT]], above). There are technical differences, too: for example, short descriptions normally start with an uppercase letter whereas Wikidata item descriptions generally use lowercase.