• WikiProject Scuba diving short descriptions  Done
• Featured article short descriptions  Done MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:50, 14 August 2020 (UTC) (not all by me)[reply]
• Good article short descriptions
• Archaeology short descriptions (work-in-progress)
• Changing transclusions of Template:Short desc and Template:Shortdescription to Template:Short description for the editor's ease  Done as of 1 November 2019; may be worth using a bot for this task in the future
  • Uses of Template:Short desc and Template:Shortdescription cleared Y. Added to monthly clean Y — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 22:30, 22 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pole Dancing

• Currently working on Pole dance  Done

Professional wrestling

• Currently working on Category:American male professional wrestlers with 1,200 pages without a short description. JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:51, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Professional wrestling schools  Done - Galatz גאליץ^{שיחה Talk} 17:15, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Professional wrestling venues  Done - Galatz גאליץ^{שיחה Talk} 19:56, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Professional wrestling websites  Done - Galatz גאליץ^{שיחה Talk} 20:50, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:History of professional wrestling  Done - Galatz גאליץ^{שיחה Talk} 18:12, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Music

• List of classical music sub-titles, nicknames and non-numeric titles (NOT category)  AltoStev ^Talk 15:28, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Musical Scales like D minor (these have the short description "tonality" - I couldn't find a category for this.)  AltoStev ^Talk 15:28, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Video games

• Category:Activision games  Done JoeNMLC (talk) 20:13, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Category:Judo -all articles under the Judo category and its sub categories (Judoka, events/competitions, federations/institutions, clubs/dojos, techniques, media) as per March 31, 2019  Done CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 15:34, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Mixed martial arts‎ - all articles under the Mixed martial Arts category and its sub categories (mixed martial artist/fighters, events/competitions, federations/institutions, teams/training orgainsations, techniques, media/tv series, executives/announcers/journalists/personalities, sport arenas, weight classes) as per April 8, 2019  Done CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 17:01, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Brazilian jiu-jitsu‎/Grapping /Jui-Jitsu - all articles under the BJJ Karate category and its sub categories (BJJ practitioners, events/competitions, federations) as per April 19, 2019  Done CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 16:17, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Karate - All articles under the Karate category and its sub categories (Karateka, events/competitions, federations/institutions, techniques/kata, fictional character) as per April 19, 2019  Done CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 16:17, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Taekwondo‎ All articles under the Taekwondo‎ category and its sub categories (practitioners, events/competitions, federations/institutions, techniques/form, films, venues, schools) as per May 6, 2019  Done. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 16:48, 6 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Boxing‎ - working in progress. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 16:17, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ice hockey

• Category:Kontinental Hockey League teams –  Done AmericanAir88^(talk) 06:01, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:New Jersey Devils seasons -  Done AmericanAir88^(talk) 06:15, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Columbus Blue Jackets seasons -  Done AmericanAir88^(talk) 04:30, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Doing, will complete all of them.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:20, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Category:Politics of Washington (state). DemonDays64 (talk) 05:17, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Puerto Rico Rivers and Barrios. The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 00:51, 6 April 2019 (UTC)  Done[reply]
• The scope of this is crazy. Cities in New Jersey. Work in progress. The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 02:17, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Communes in France. Work in progress. The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 13:09, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Cities, unincorporated in Minnesota. Work in progress. The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 13:09, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Unincorporated communities in Minnesota  Done --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 13:13, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Norwich. Willbb234 (talk) 08:34, 6 August 2019 (UTC)  Done[reply]
• List of rivers in Paraná Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 12:06, 5 September 2019 (UTC)  Done[reply]
• Category:1982 establishments in India - Done! Has a Username (talk) 18:22, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• List of counties in Arizona  Done SWP13 (talk) 01:19, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of counties in Colorado  Done SWP13 (talk) 01:22, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of counties in Idaho, US.  Done SWP13 (talk) 16:21, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers in North Rhine-Westphalia.  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 11:08, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Bavaria  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 20:52, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Berlin  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 19:45, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Brandenburg  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 12:49, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Baden-Württemberg  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 22:28, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Bremen  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 21:51, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Hamburg  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 21:56, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Hesse  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 22:18, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Lower Saxony  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 21:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 17:33, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Rhineland-Palatinate  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 11:46, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• List of rivers of Saarland  Done Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 23:38, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Category:Pennsylvania Civil War regiments. Willbb234^Talk (please ((ping)) me in replies) 11:27, 15 August 2019 (UTC)  Done[reply]

Lepidoptera

• Category:Moths of Europe.  Done MichaelMaggs (talk) 20:39, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• All articles (+lists & targets of redirects etc., but not categories, stub-templates and similar) of the following Lepidoptera categories, including unless otherwise stated all sub(-sub-etc.)categories: AddWittyNameHere 21:35, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

by taxonomical placement:

• Category:Bucculatricidae  Done; 21:35, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Pterophoridae  Done 21:35, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Schreckensteinioidea  Done 21:35, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Urodidae  Done 21:35, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Hyblaeidae  Done 22:04, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Drepanidae  Done 02:34, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Heterobathmiina  Done 04:00, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Lophocoronoidea  Done 04:00, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Neopseustidae  Done 04:00, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Palaephatidae  Done 04:00, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Douglasiidae  Done 22:01, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Eriocranioidea  Done 22:25, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Mnesarchaeoidea  Done 23:57, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Mimallonidae  Done 04:19, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Micropterigidae  Done 04:19, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

by type of article: Lists

• Category:Lists of moths – main category  Done 22:04, 6 January 2020 (UTC), subcategories  Not done yet with exception of:

• Category:Lists of moths of Australia  Done 22:04, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Lists of moths of Canada  Done 02:41, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Lists of moths of Metropolitan France  Done 02:41, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
• Category:Lists of moths of Japan  Done 22:25, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Horse articles

• Category:Individual racehorses  Done Aspening (talk) 20:41, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ammonites

• Category:Ammonitida genera  Done ExcellentWheatFarmer (talk) 19:45, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Ammonitina stubs  Done ExcellentWheatFarmer (talk) 12:59, 19 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Ammonitida families  Done ExcellentWheatFarmer (talk) 13:25, 19 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikiproject South Africa quality FA, FL, A, GA  Done Ayenaee (talk) 17:22, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Wikiproject South Africa quality B (in progress) Ayenaee (talk) 17:22, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikiproject Germany quality FA, A, GA  In progress ExcellentWheatFarmer (talk) 19:40, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This PetScan query finds all vital articles that don't have a native short description. (may take a while to load) Ionmars10 (talk) 13:28, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I just realized that VAs for each level are linked from Wikipedia:Vital articles and its subpages, so here are queries that restrict the search to level 3 and level 4 respectively. Ionmars10 (talk) 20:53, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm adding an alternate link here which people might find useful to use in conjunction with the ones posted above. This level 4 list is the same as the one posted above, but it filters out pages that already include the short description template. YuriNikolai (talk) 01:46, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In the same vein as the above post, here's another useful link - doing the same as the above link, but for Level 5 vital articles. ExcellentWheatFarmer (talk) 11:35, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone would like to help out, there are now only 1878 level 5 articles to go according to this search. MichaelMaggs (talk) 16:05, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As TODO lists, I have created indexes to all of these articles which show any existing Short descriptions. See:
• 0–9, A–F ⇒ User:GhostInTheMachine/SD
• G–M ⇒ User:GhostInTheMachine/SD2
• N–Z ⇒ User:GhostInTheMachine/SD3 — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 17:48, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Less than 1000 to go — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 20:02, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Less than 200 to go — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 11:10, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/1 (top 10)  Done ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 19:30, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/2 (top 100)  Done comrade waddie96 (talk) 11:47, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/3 (top 1000)  Done ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 20:11, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 (top 10,000)  Done ExcellentWheatFarmer (talk) 13:09, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5 (top 50,000)  Done I think? All the articles in the search have descriptions, except for Magician (supernatural) which is actually a redirect page. GraziePrego (talk) 06:01, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]