Assorted Short descriptions to tidy when I have small chunks of time.

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Lower case

• Category:Pages with lower-case short description (1)

Too long

Category:Wikipedia pages with long short description

• Category:Articles with long short description‎ (0)
• Category:Books with long short description‎ (0)
• Category:Drafts with long short description‎ (35)
• Category:Files with long short description‎ (0)
• Category:Help pages with long short description (0)
• Category:Modules with long short description‎ (0)
• Category:Portals with long short description‎ (0)
• Category:Project pages with long short description‎ (0)
• Category:Redirects with long short description‎ (0)
• Category:Templates with long short description‎ (0)
• Category:User pages with long short description (102)

Bad parameter

• Category:Pages using short description with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Pages with empty short description (535) — not limited to articles

Monthly checks

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions#Monthly checks
• Mambots report — about 5th of each month
• Template:Short description#Maintenance categories

Category checks

• Category:2022 deaths (11,501)

Random free moments

• Search for articles without a short description — -incategory:"Articles with short description"
  • same but without DAB pages — -incategory:"Articles with short description" -incategory:"All disambiguation pages"
• Towns in North Yorkshire without a short description — Petscan 19255348 Depth+1
  • same but without redirects — Petscan 21704399

Wrong templates

• uses of ((Shortdesc))
• uses of ((Shortdescription))
• uses of ((Short desc))

Bad description

SD that probably came from a Bot at some point.

• Wikimedia list — insource:"Wikimedia list article" — should all be set to "none"
• Wikipedia list — insource:"Wikipedia list article" — should all be set to "none"
• Aspect of history — insource:/"hort description|Aspect of history"/ — should mostly be set to "none"

Wrong structure

Searches for bad template use

• bare SHORTDESC magic word — Main page has SHORTDESC hardcoded, Dollar General has it as part of a reference URL in the infobox
• template name has a leading space — caused issues with the helper, should all be fixed now — Search — insource:/\{\{ [Ss]hort description/
• two (or more!) SD templates — should all be fixed
• SD not first — bad MOS — lots of them — Search — insource:/\} *\{\{[Ss]hort description/
• SD after a heading — worse case of SD not first — few hundred — Search — insource:/.*==.*\{\{[Ss]hort description/
• SD starting with a space — used to confuse the helper, now tolerated

Bad style

• SD starting "A ..." — bad style — lots of them — insource:/\{\{[Ss]hort description\|A /
• SD starting "The ..." — bad style — lots of them — insource:/\{\{[Ss]hort description\|The /

Specific cases