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 === Succinctness ===
-[[Image:Volkswagen W16.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Large automobile engine with Bugatti logo|Mechanical engineers design and build [[power plant]]s and [[engine]]s, such as this Volkswagen Group-designed Bugatti W16 engine.]]
-"Succinctness" means using no superfluous or needless words. It is not the same as "brevity", which means using a relatively small number of words. Succinct captions have more power than verbose ones. More than three lines of text in a caption may be distracting; sometimes increasing the pixel width of the image brings better visual balance, or further information can be provided in the article text. And remember that readers wanting full detail can click through to the [[Wikipedia:Image description page|image description page]].
+"Succinctness" means using no superfluous or needless words. It is not the same as "brevity", which means using a relatively small number of words. Succinct captions have more power than verbose ones. More than three lines of text in a caption may be distracting; sometimes increasing the pixel width of the image brings better visual balance, or further information can be provided in the article text. And remember that readers wanting full detail can click through to the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Image description page|image description page]].
 === Non-visual media ===