WP:LEAD seems to be giving me some cause for concern.
The guideline is not completely horrible by any means, but it doesn't seem to be improving.
My concerns are:
- the article is completely unreferenced - there's a lot of simple reverts going on to apparently well meaning edits on grounds of 'lack of consensus' - the people reverting are defining consensus - taking it to the talk page doesn't seem to help much - they are trying to define the guideline independently from usage both elsewhere as well as within the wikipedia (I would have thought that guidelines for writing encyclopedia article introduction/leads would exist elsewhere, today a reference to one was added, but it lasted only a few hours and then was removed for 'lack of consensus') - given the lack of references, the editors involved seem to be defining the relative importance of things without reference to anything at all (not even the core values of the wikipedia as far as I can see)
I don't know, perhaps I'm making mountains out of molehills, as I say, it's not a completely horrible article, and if you read it quickly it sounds very reasonable, but less so when you read it very carefully, it's more the activity surrounding it.