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"Same as the above" style descriptions are not ideal
There are a number of descriptions written with some variation of "same as the above" / "see above" / "like the above" which presumes that the linear list organization of the current page is static (or at least consistently ordered) and that records will not be copied individually to other locations. The introduction of the toolinfo.json scraper for this data breaks that assumption. I would like to suggest that folks update their descriptions to be somehow less dependent on reading order. Each case will of course be slightly different, but one typical solution could be to replace the "above" mentions in descriptions with the names of the scripts being extended or adapted to new use cases. --BDavis (WMF) (talk) 17:36, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
