Editing Chabadpedia:Short description (section)

===Content text===
When visible on desktop or mobile, the short description immediately follows the article title, and the two should be comprehensible when read together.
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'''A short description is not intended as a definition''', and editors should not attempt to define the article's subject, nor to summarise the lead. There is no objection to a suitable short description that also happens to work as a definition.

As far as possible, it should:
* focus on the [[#Purposes|purposes]] stated above
* start with the most important information (mobile applications may truncate long descriptions)
* use universally accepted facts that will not be subject to rapid change, avoiding anything that could be understood as controversial, judgemental, or promotional
* avoid jargon, and use simple, readily comprehensible terms that do not require pre-existing detailed knowledge of the subject
* avoid duplicating information that is already in the title (but don't worry too much if you need to repeat a word or two for context)
* avoid time-specific adjectives like "former", "retired", "late", "defunct", "closed", "current", "new", "recent", "planned", "future", etc.
* avoid subjective adjectives like "small", "famous", "popular"
Description	What you type	What you get
Italic	''Italic text''	Italic text
Bold	'''Bold text'''	Bold text
Bold & italic	'''''Bold & italic text'''''	*Bold & italic text*