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Lede and Introduction
editThanks for making clear the difference between lede and introduction in your addition to Talk:Project 2025: Difference between revisions. It appears many editors are unaware of it. Mcljlm (talk) 21:45, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Mcljlm: Thank you for reaching out. I am glad I am not alone in being frustrated with the confusion. Nerd271 (talk) 15:56, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- I've just noticed that the MOS doesn't help: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section. Mcljlm (talk) 17:34, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- Mcljlm That is a mistake. Frankly, it is one example of the reason why I generally do not consult Wikipedia on matters of style. Something like The Elements of Style (3rd ed. 1979) by Strunk and White or The Sense of Style (2014) by Steven Pinker is more authoritative. Nerd271 (talk) 23:59, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- In that case Nerd271 perhaps you should edit the MOS section. Mcljlm (talk) 10:38, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- It turns out that the problem has been fixed, or that it never existed in the first place. Please see MOS:NOTLEDE. In addition, at the very top of MOS:LEAD, it reads,
It is not a news-style lead or "lede" paragraph.
We should remind people with the magic wordMOS:NOTLEDE
next time someone calls it that. Nerd271 (talk) 12:28, 11 June 2024 (UTC)- The MOS page I linked to Nerd271 is still entitled Manual of Style/Lead section, the word lead is used throughout and MOS:NOTLEDE merely describes how it should differ from a newspaper's lead (WP:NOTALEDE explains why lead rather than lede is use. Mcljlm (talk) 20:25, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- It turns out that the problem has been fixed, or that it never existed in the first place. Please see MOS:NOTLEDE. In addition, at the very top of MOS:LEAD, it reads,
- In that case Nerd271 perhaps you should edit the MOS section. Mcljlm (talk) 10:38, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- Mcljlm That is a mistake. Frankly, it is one example of the reason why I generally do not consult Wikipedia on matters of style. Something like The Elements of Style (3rd ed. 1979) by Strunk and White or The Sense of Style (2014) by Steven Pinker is more authoritative. Nerd271 (talk) 23:59, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- I've just noticed that the MOS doesn't help: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section. Mcljlm (talk) 17:34, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
Please be more careful with sourcing
editWith this edit, you introduced something the source did not say, namely that the Project would "eliminate" free meals in schools. The source actually says that cuts will be made. In such a high visibility article, it is important we be especially careful to represent what the sources say accuratly... we owe it to our readers, and the reputation of the encyclopedia depends on it. Marcus Markup (talk) 18:50, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- I quote from the article, "Gutting the nation’s free school meals program." Nerd271 (talk) 20:34, 11 July 2024 (UTC)