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All articles should have a short description (and therefore should belong to Category:Articles with short description), but some article titles are sufficiently detailed that an additional short description would not be helpful, e.g., Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's downhill.
Craies and Hardcastle. "Popular or Short Titles of Statutes". Treatise on the Construction and Effect of Statute Law. 2nd Ed. 1892. p 604. "Alphabetical Table of Statutes". Juta's Statutes of South Africa. "Alphabetical Table of Statutes". The Statutes of New South Wales. "Alphabetical Table of Statutes". Statutes of Saskatchewan.
Generally, article titles are based on what the subject is called in reliable sources. When this offers multiple possibilities, editors choose among them by considering several principles: the ideal article title precisely identifies the subject; it is short, natural, distinguishable and recognizable; and resembles titles for similar articles.
Short titles were subsequently given to many unrepealed acts at later dates; for example, the Bill of Rights, an act of 1689, was given that short title by the Short Titles Act 1896, having until then been formally referred to only by its long title, An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown.
This article is about a global subject (e.g., education), but the editor notices that it currently only provides examples or information from the US. The concerned editor proposes that the article be renamed to Subject in the United States, and that we create a new article about Subject, or have no article at all.
It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories. Do not include this category in content categories.
A stub is an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, usually only a few sentences long. This is one of the most common types of article on Wikipedia, with a good example being Crescent Falls in May 2018. Such article can be tagged with {} or its variant for easy identification.
Short descriptions appear in Wikipedia mobile and some desktop searches, and help users identify the desired article. When viewing an article, some mobile Wikipedia Apps also display the description below the page title. Articles that are lacking a short description appear in search result lists simply by their titles, with no annotation.