Editing Chabadpedia:Short description (section)

=== Inclusion of dates ===
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Dates or date ranges are encouraged when they enhance the short description as an annotation or improve disambiguation. As long as the [[#Formatting|formatting criteria are met]], biographies of non-living people, articles on specific publications, and dated historical events generally benefit from dating, but since the description should be kept short, other information may need to take precedence. Care should be taken when the [[CB:BLP|biographies of living persons]] (BLP) policy applies: birthdates for living people should not be included unless sourced within the article. 

Recommended date formats are given below, but these can be varied if there is contrary consensus on the talk page. In biographies, distinguish between dates defining a lifespan ''"(birthyear–deathyear)"'' and those defining a period in office ''"from startyear to endyear"''. For historical biographies, specific dates such as "1750–1810" are preferred over "18th-century" for clarity. Other dated events or ranges can use any format as long as the meaning is clear.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Date inclusion recommendations, by article subject type
!scope="col"| Type
!scope="col"| Criterion
!scope="col"| Recommended date format
!scope="col"| Examples
|-
!scope="row" rowspan="6"| Biography
|rowspan="3"| Lifetime most important
|[Person description] (''birthyear''–''deathyear'')
|English composer (1668–1735)
|-
|[[CB:BLP|BLP]] or year of death unknown: [Person description] (born ''birthyear'')
|English composer (born 1668)
|-
|Year of birth unknown: [Person description] (died ''deathyear'')
|English composer (died 1735)
|-
|rowspan="3"|Period in office most important
|[Office description] from ''startyear'' to ''endyear''
|{{Unbulleted list
| King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513
| Pope from 965 to 972
}}
|-
|Currently in office: [Office description] since ''startyear''
|President of Mexico since 2012
|-
|Term of office contained within one year: [Office description] in ''start''/''endyear''
|President of the United States in 1841
|-
!scope="row"| Publication
|Publication in a specific year
|''Publicationyear'' [Description]
|{{Unbulleted list
| 1964 American film
| 1988 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald
| 2001 video game
}}
|-
!scope="row" rowspan="4"| Historical
|Event in a specific year
|''Eventyear'' [Description]
|1861 American Civil War battle
|-
|rowspan="3"| Period or range
|[Description] from ''startyear'' to ''endyear''
|Epidemic of plague from 1665 to 1666
|-
|[Description] (''startyear''–''endyear'')
|Epidemic of bubonic plague (1665–1666)
|-
|[Description], ''startyear''–''endyear''
|Epidemic of bubonic plague, 1665–1666
|}
Where a date is not known exactly, "c.&nbsp;" may be used for "circa". Other examples are given at [[CB:APPROXDATE]], although "fl.&nbsp;" for "[[floruit]]" should be avoided as it is not universally understood. Centuries should not be abbreviated "c.&nbsp;" due to the potential for confusion with "circa".

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