Some products.Topic.description strings include trailing periods, most do not

[TonnesM]

As the title says, recently a few new UI strings for Sumo landed that used trailing periods (for instance this one) whereas most others don’t have any. I think these always involve products.Topic.description strings.

Please check for consistency and fix what you think should be. Trivial, but just a punctuality issue.

[pmac]

I did some looking and there are 51 of 192 topic descriptions that end in a period. Should these all be changed to remove the period? Perhaps Madalina or Patrick have an opinion. I'll find and ask them.

[TonnesM]

If it helps: I’d say all of them would need to get rid of the period, except for ones that can be considered as 1 or 2 sentences, such as "New to Pocket? Start here." That goes for both products.Product.description (1) and products.Topic.description (51).

In addition: when a period is included and besides the inconsistent looks, some localizers may assume a string to be imperative (=instructive) instead of infinitive (descriptive, as in "How to / I want to / Here you can [action]" - similar to tooltips, menu items etc.) Without looking at the string context or ID, that could lead to wrong or at least inconsistent translations.

There may be strings that could be considered as being imperative, such as "Make Firefox yours with these customization options." or the ones starting with "Learn more about", but even then I’d recommend not doing so as they can be considered to be ambiguous. Yet feel free to only remove a number of them, as long as other ones have valid reasons to include periods.