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It seems the short name is not currently compulsory. I've just created a new page (from clicking a red link in a woman's husband's infobox) forgetting to enter a short name in the"required" field. On clicking for a preview I got a page with a curious message followed by the usual start of Form:Person. Clicking to publish produced an article that was more or less in the expected form, with "born on an unknown date ..." as is common in recent years. Minor tweak before republishing, and I got a much better article but with <short name> in the infobox. --- Robin Patterson (Talk) 09:44, 5 November 2022 (UTC)