Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-25075055-20140203153514/@comment-770155-20140208171330

Defining 'short' is very hard. There might be some cases where it might just not work out. Setting a character limit wouldn't be an achievable goal. Leads that are very long can be shortened any time since it would classify as achieving better general lay-out consistency. Since the majority of our articles have shorter leads than given example, it wouldn't be policy breaking by shortening it right now.