In the Badges page, out of the 80+ badge descriptions, only 5 have full stops, and the others don't have.
The five are: Fanatic, Enthusiast, and the three Tag Badges, it can be seen here:
Can this please be made consistent by removing the full stop from the above 5 badge descriptions?
The current badge descriptions are already consistent.
The descriptions without period are all examples of imperative phrases: Do this. In contrast, the tag badges are a different type of sentence in subject-verb-object style: You must have X to achieve this badge.
The Enthusiast and Fanatic badges also use imperative phrases, but they are followed by another, separate phrase (about UTC). Therefore the description is now a paragraph, and both phrases must be "upgraded" to a sentence with a period to be able to separate the phrases properly. Not doing so would be a grammatical error in paragraph composition.
So the consistency is:
The Style guide practises this difference, although implicitly. From active tense:
✅ Do
“Update your profile”
Two phrases, from ellipses:
✅ Do
Avoid subjective questions. Stick to fact-based questions.
However, the guide also contradicts this principle in hyphens:
✅ Do
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Therefore, while the badge page is consistent, the Style guide does not explicitly provide relevant guidelines. Also the guide is inconsistent on this point regarding the examples given. Another inconsistency in the examples is the use of quotes (only used in active tense and contractions, nowhere else). So the guide can be made more clear by providing explicit definitions and remove inconsistencies - but the badge page seems fine.
Example of a famous Laconic phrase:
If.
Spartan ephors replying to: "If I invade Laconia, I shall turn you out."
And "if" really is the keyword here. What is a sentence? Well, apparently linguists are divided but "Stop! (Look and listen)" does appear when you fail a review audit, so elsewhere on SE Laconic phrases are also used.
If you look at consistency as more than a word and consider the Stacks style guide - Periods you'll see it defines an interesting intersection between design and grammar, namely: "Don’t use periods in interface copy unless (if) it’s a full sentence or description." And why is that interesting? Because it engages you in the exercise of understanding what makes a sentence a sentence. I think the problem is most of the descriptions in the badges page are sentences, but some would look good ending in a full stop while others wouldn't.
I don't think the two sentences: "Visit the site each day for N consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)" would look good without the two periods. But if someone thinks it would look better, please, post an example and let's look at it.
from all badgesApart from making your head feel less dizzy, is there any other reason why periods (full stops) should be removed from the descriptions of: Enthusiast, Fanatic, Custodian, Reviewer, Steward, Broze, Silver and Gold badges?