RexxS added a comment.
Wikidata is not an application, so I'm not sure of the value of its expectations., I'm unaware of any application that adds the description after the label in the way you describe, Perhaps you can name some examples? Otherwise the principal use of Wikidata descriptions is on the mobile platforms for the 6 million+ articles on the English Wikipedia, plus the millions of other articles in other language Wikipedias. The use of those descriptions is for sub-headings, which naturally begin with a capital, with the exception of stylisations like "eBay" and scientific terms like "nCov-19". When used to help searches on mobile, short descriptions are designed to distinguish items with similar titles as quickly as possible. That allows users to see a list of matching articles and pick the one they want without having to type the entire search term. For example, you should only need to type the first few characters of "Benzopyrene" before you see (+)-Benzo(a)pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide Cancer-causing agent derived from tobacco smoke which allows you pick the particular carcinogenic chemical derived from smoke, rather than any other "Benzo-" chemical. You don't need a short description to distinguish `Georgia (country)` from `Georgia (U.S. state)` or any of the other 30+ similar articles when searching, so neither the local short description nor the Wikidata description is needed in that case. The Wikidata short description for "set" (Q36161) is currently "fundamental mathematical concept related to the notions of belonging or inclusion". That is unnecessarily wordy and long for a search using a mobile phone screen, so it's fortunate that the article is titled "Set (mathematics)" and that is easily enough to distinguish the article from any of the other 50+ articles listed on the disambiguation page. On the Wikipedia App, you see: Set (mathematics) Fundamental mathematical concept related to the notions of belonging or inclusion Can anybody give an example of a user who would find that lengthy sub-title useful? Particularly when you look at the opening sentence of the lead. An insistence that the Wikidata description has to be a stand-alone description of the entity is another reason why Wikidata descriptions are often unsuitable to do the job of short descriptions on Wikipedias. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Tgr, RexxS Cc: Bugreporter, DannyS712, Liuxinyu970226, Lofhi, MGChecker, Pbsouthwood, Deskana, Catrope, RexxS, Nikerabbit, Dbrant, Jdlrobson, Stashbot, WMDE-leszek, Elitre, gerritbot, TheDJ, Fjalapeno, Tbayer, MZMcBride, Alsee, bearND, Mike_Peel, Tgr, JKatzWMF, daniel, Bmueller, Addshore, Lydia_Pintscher, Samwilson, Aklapper, DannyH, darthmon_wmde, Ddurigon, Mateo1977, Nandana, aezell, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, Taquo, LawExplorer, catalandres, JJMC89, B20180, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Karthik_sripal, SBisson, Nakon, MusikAnimal, Fhocutt, Wikidata-bugs, Mooeypoo, aude, Ricordisamoa, -jem-, Jdforrester-WMF, Mbch331, Krenair
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