[WikiEN-l] [WikiEn-l] Article surveys re-surveyed

[Peter Mackay]

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Steve Bennett
 
> On 5/21/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, I very, very frequently break up 
> unstructured articles into sections, wikify, or rearrange 
> sections into some kind of order - the very basic sort of 
> editing that anyone can do, but that people seem afraid to? 
> It's actually really trivial to read an article paragraph by 
> paragraph and add a ==section heading== before each one 
> summarising what it's about, and it's so helpful. Once that's 
> done you can actually begin to see the article as whole and 
> see what's missing, rather than just seeing that there's lots 
> of text, and maybe it has enough text?

I do this all the time. Irritating to see an otherwise fine article that has
most of the material in the lead section and the ToC is down at the end,
showing "External links" and so on.

Pete, bold enough to do this