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Talk:1920 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Constitutional Assembly election

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Copy edits

I'm working on basic copy edits. I realize that the first section was intended to be the MOS:LEAD but it is too long to be that. The lead should be short - usually just a paragraph. Because the article will have all of the details, the lead is no more than a teaser. I started a lead but do not know enough about the topic to help much. I'll be happy to review any drafts of the lead that you write. Lamona (talk) 02:18, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

:@Lamona, you are completely wrong. Please read MOS:LEAD more carefully. It explicitly says that few well-written leads will be shorter than 100 words, and the lead you have for all intents and purposes destroyed, is mere 39. MOS:LONGLEAD specifically says that leads up to 400 words are common in featured articles (the lead before the "copyedit" had 494). WP:CREATELEAD explicitly says up to four paragraphs per lead - and before the "intervention" slashing everything out, the lede had four paragraphs. Please refrain from making MOS edits before actually taking time to read MOS. Tomobe03 (talk) 11:27, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

::I can easily reverse the lead, and did not change the following paragraphs. I do think that a shorter lead would be preferable, as the lead is intended to introduce and summarize. What I did there was a place-holder, not intended to be complete. But I will change it back, as you wish. Lamona (talk) 14:38, 11 March 2025 (UTC)