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Happy editing! Ifnord (talk) 01:12, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Short Description

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With short descriptions, we have a situation where we are aiming to have a maximum of 40 characters. The driving reason is that the short description is displayed on the mobile access to the article in a search result. 65% of access to Wikipedia is now via mobile devices or tablets. With courtesy, your reversion somewhat defeats that objective to display a short description that is readable on the mobile device. Your edit returns the short description to 48 characters. Descriptions over 40 characters get chopped off. In this instance, your edit defeats our purposes. What form of short description would you consider appropriate? --Whiteguru (talk) 17:01, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

No objection to your short description, but the edit had mangled syntax, so part of the short description appeared in the article itself. Feel free to try again, but please check it looks okay before committing the edit. SaffyLane (talk) 21:35, 30 July 2021 (UTC)