Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20140225181146/@comment-9062114-20140225185745

Krow Dawnstar wrote: Zippertrain85 wrote: So I've been noticing something on the Wiki Mainspace articles, it's that a lot of pages have long intros. To be honest, I think it looks unprofessional to have intros that long, but yet it's against the rules I heard to put them in another section called "description" or something. So I wanted to make this Consensus to abolish this rule, as I feel making the Intros smaller and putting the information into different sections will makes the pages look better and do overall good for the Wiki.

So, what do you think? It depends on the article, some are going to need much longer intros than others. It may have to come down to making a poll or a discussion for each wiki page that you think is too long, and revising it in talk pages before making an edit.

I do agree that the intro should only be one to two paragraphs, and in no way should take up more then, say, a quarter of the height of the screen. The problem with any "rule of thumb" for writing is.. It's all based on the information you actually need to put in.

Putting the intro in another section just to call it somthing else will make the wiki unorganised and choppy at best. Taking small parts of information from an intro and moving it into categories could, of course, help simply because it is then organised in a better way.

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I would like to point out these two intros to help AES's point that chopping intros down too much makes a page look awful: Torygg (Bad intro)  and Skyrim (Awesome intro) I completely agree. Sometimes people write too much information in that area, and I feel like if it's split up into the topic it's discussing it could flow better with the page.