Daniel Mayer (maveric149@yahoo.com) [040721 05:59]:
That is exactly why I support Summary Style instead of News Style. The "dropability" part does not apply to what we are doing and strictly speaking News Style only provides for lead sentences, not lead sections. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style
You are of course correct. (Which is why both Wikipedia:News style and Wikipedia:summary syle now both say: "For the planned paper Wikipedia 1.0, one consensus recommendation is that the paper version of articles will be the lead section of the web version. A concise intro satisfying both summary style and news style that would work stand-alone is ideal." Reword as you wish.)
I suppose I'm really pushing for good standalone intros, and news or summary style is a way to get there.
- d.