Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25075055-20140203153514/@comment-25075055-20140208162552

Dovahsebrom wrote: All you need to do is read the first sentence to know it's the correct page. I don't have OCD but seriously, having a one sentence introduction paragraph just makes me cringe. No, article leads are not meant to be as long as the one you have written on Vivec's page. The information is fine, but there is no need to cram it all into the lead: that is BAD practice and indicates an issue. It's fine to have a moderately sized lead, but there is no need to verbally throw that much information at the reader and confuse them. These various pages - both on this wiki and elsewhere - are perfect examples of appropriate leads to describe the article. They're not long and give the reader a summary of the article. Sky Above,Voice Within wrote: The lead is not supposed to be short, it's supposed to quickly summarize the entire article. And it is a long article. .... Quickly summarise means a few sentences, not a massive sermon. Some of the articles with long leads are essentially whole sections in themselves and not even leads at all.