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→Extraneous initial headings: They sure are annoying, and when this wiki get a style guide, writing a good first section will hopefully be mentioned
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Sometimes heading are used to introduce things, when that text should just be put at the top of the page since it's implicitly a description anyways, e.g. see [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Using_a_Nasal_file_with_a_joystick&curid=10540&diff=62635&oldid=57667 this edit]. This mainly screws up the ToC placement, besides being really weird. I don't know the limitations of the bot or how it works, so would it be able to take care of these cases? I'm thinking that we could always undo edits if we need to, but in general it would be fine to remove any heading that starts the page content with (content start being defined as after any <tt><nowiki>{{include}}</nowiki></tt>s or blank lines). [[User:Philosopher|—Philosopher]] ([[User talk:Philosopher|talk]]) 01:04, 10 September 2013 (UTC) | Sometimes heading are used to introduce things, when that text should just be put at the top of the page since it's implicitly a description anyways, e.g. see [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Using_a_Nasal_file_with_a_joystick&curid=10540&diff=62635&oldid=57667 this edit]. This mainly screws up the ToC placement, besides being really weird. I don't know the limitations of the bot or how it works, so would it be able to take care of these cases? I'm thinking that we could always undo edits if we need to, but in general it would be fine to remove any heading that starts the page content with (content start being defined as after any <tt><nowiki>{{include}}</nowiki></tt>s or blank lines). [[User:Philosopher|—Philosopher]] ([[User talk:Philosopher|talk]]) 01:04, 10 September 2013 (UTC) | ||
:I'm not sure it is best dealt with by a bot, as some of them could be condensed a bit, but I sure agree that the wast majority of those sections should be moved to the top of the page for the reasons you mention. While I am not sure that this wiki is fully ready for a style guide yet, this is one of the things I would like to have there. | |||
:Also a well written and rather short introduction is a really good way to (1) help a reader see if this is the page he was looking for, (2) give an overview and the basics of a subject, (3) make it easier to grasp the concepts that will follow and finally (4) perhaps introduce some of nomenclature that will be used in the article. | |||
:—[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 13:47, 11 September 2013 (UTC) | |||