Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25075055-20140203153514/@comment-25075055-20140208191712

Article leads should only cover the necessary points, the lead in Vivec's article states the basic information about him, just as they should do. The Falmer article is pretty long and yet it has a lead of just two sentences. The purpose of the lead is to grab the attention of the reader and keep them there: a short lead does just that.

The information about the character himself belongs in a == Background == section.

I think this is a good time to mention the article about the title character of Naruto. As you can clearly see, the lead is very short and mentions ALL key points of the article with most of the extensive information about him as a character mentioned in the Background and later sections.