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:Thank you for that. I find myself using that animated gif all the time online in social medial - and it is often what goes through my head when I see some of the edits I see some people do here on WP - so, I figured it fits. :D [[User:Picard's_Facepalm|<b>--Picard's Facepalm</b>]] <b style="color:red">•</b> [[Special:Contributions/Picard's_Facepalm| <sup>Made It So</sup>]] [[User talk:Picard's_Facepalm|<i style="color:green"><sub>Engage!</sub></i>]] <b style="color:red">•</b> 19:11, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
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== Short description ==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Better_Off_Dead_(film)&diff=prev&oldid=1263770142 (diff)] I wasn't doing an "end run around" anything by changing the short description.
[[WP:SDPURPOSE]] is "disambiguation in searches, especially to distinguish the subject from similarly titled subjects in different fields" (people using searches are separate from people who might see the disambig page)
Until recently [[WP:SDEXAMPLES]] specifically recommended using "YEAR film by director" to disambiguate films in the short description and many film articles use this format rather than the more generic description used for TV articles. It is not clear why they changed this previously clear advice or why anyone would prefer a generic short description over a more specific one.
A very generic description might be good enough to do that disambiguation but the name of a key person such as the director seems like a better and much more '''specific''' way to disambiguate similar titles. (The disambig page [[Better Off Dead]] uses a key person, the starring actor John Cusack to disambiguate this film.)
A more specific short description may not be entirely necessary in the case of [[Better Off Dead]] but I wanted to make it absolutely clear that my edit was not about avoiding but all about trying to better follow the guidelines in keeping with [[WP:SDPURPOSE]] and entirely in [[WP:GOODFAITH]]. -- [[Special:Contributions/109.76.129.67|109.76.129.67]] ([[User talk:109.76.129.67|talk]]) 06:53, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
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