در حال ویرایش الگو:Excerpt/توضیحات (بخش)

==Advantages and disadvantages==

The use of {{tl|Excerpt}} has the following advantages:

* '''Reduces maintenance''' by avoiding duplicate content that must be updated multiple times
* '''Improves content quality''' by encouraging editors to merge related content, rather than having multiple versions in various stages of development (see [[#Replacing summary section with excerpt of child article]])
* '''Fosters collaboration''' by channeling contributors into one place, rather than working in parallel
* '''Promotes rapid development''' of articles, especially those written in [[WP:Summary style|summary style]]

It also has the following disadvantages:

* '''Impediment to editing''' as you have to go to the sub article to make changes to the main article (though excerpts include a hatnote with an [edit] button to edit the excerpted article in one click)
* '''Reduces accuracy''' as an excerpt of one article is not always a perfect fit into a new article (but see [[#Refinement using inclusion control]])
* '''Decreases visibility''' as changes to the sub article will not appear on the watchlist of editors of the main article (see [[phab:T55525]])
* '''Risk of linkrot''' as pages or sections are blanked, moved, or deleted; this may result in the appearance of [[#Error messages|§&nbsp;error messages]] on the page <!-- may be able to be mitigated through use of anchors; see [[MOS:BROKENEXCERPTLINKS]] -->