The Published check box description text currently says

"A boolean indicating whether the node is published."

Let's change this to just say...

"Published."

with no description.

It reminds me of this issue: #2350013: Descriptions for Promotion Options are too technical

I think the string lives here:
https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core!modules!node!src!Entity!Node.php/...

Nope, it's moved! It lives here now:
https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core!lib!Drupal!Core!Entity!EntityPubl...

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#14 publish-content.png3.11 KBkattekrab
#14 boolean.png4.86 KBkattekrab
#4 2849357-publishedstatus-4.patch772 byteskattekrab

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kattekrab created an issue. See original summary.

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joachim commented

Removing the technical term 'boolean' is a good idea, but also, I think that checkboxes can seem a bit ambiguous with a label that's an action rather than a state.

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kattekrab commented

I looked back at Drupal7 and just like promoted and sticky... it was just the word, and on or off, so I reckon that would be better here too.

eg.
☑ Published.

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kattekrab commented
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new 2849357-publishedstatus-4.patch772 bytes

Here's a patch.

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kattekrab commented
Status: Active » Needs review

Dear testbot, please test my patch.

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larowlan
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commented 
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/EntityPublishedTrait.php
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ public static function publishedBaseFieldDefinitions(EntityTypeInterface $entity
+      ->setLabel(new TranslatableMarkup('Published'))

suggestion 'Whether or not the item is published'?

my 2c

also, yellow bikeshed

But yeah, anything is better than what we have now

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kattekrab commented

Yellow is my favourite colour @larowlan :-)

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dinesh18 commented
Status: Needs review » Active

Hello,

I don't think so it is required to change the description. It seems to sound understandable with the word boolean.

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joachim commented

The point is to get rid of the term 'boolean', which many end-users won't know.

The label and description set here are what ends up in the form for the entity.

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dinesh18 commented

We can use #4 patch if we need to get rid of the word "boolean".
It seems to be short and meaningful.

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kattekrab commented
Status: Active » Needs review

Setting this back to needs review.

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kattekrab commented
Title: Change "Published" status description to more user friendly text » Remove "Published" status description to align with "Promoted" and "Sticky at top of lists"

I've changed the title of the issue to make it clearer where this ended up.

Not changing the description, removing it entirely, as was done for "Promoted" and "Sticky at top of lists".

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kattekrab commented
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kattekrab commented
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new publish-content.png3.11 KB
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kattekrab commented

So... what else does this need?

Anyone else willing to review and either give feedback, or RTBC?

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gábor hojtsy
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Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary
commented

Looks good. What would this do to existing sites? Is the metadata updated there automatically?

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kattekrab commented

Good question.

I have no idea. And no idea how we would even check that.

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berdir
Primary language German
Location Switzerland
commented

This is fine on existing sites apart from being a string change, obviously. As commented in #2068063: Change "Save and keep un-/published" buttons to a "Published" checkbox and an included "Save" button, I would recommend to merge this into that, as we already make pat of the change generically and the other half just for node.

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kattekrab commented

Closing this as a dupe of #2068063: Change "Save and keep un-/published" buttons to a "Published" checkbox and an included "Save" button

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kattekrab commented
Status: Needs review » Closed (duplicate)