On 07/20/04 00:22, David Gerard wrote:
Currently, [[Wikipedia:News style]] speaks of it as almost optional. I strongly suggest this status be upgraded, something like: "Although optional, a news style intro is strongly recommended if you want an article to be in Wikipedia 1.0 - many print articles are likely to be only the intro of the web article." Thoughts?
I've been reading a huge pile of stuff on Wikipedia 1.0 from the past year. There have been several mentions of the idea, much support and little objection. So I've boldly edited [[Wikipedia:News style]] and [[Wikipedia:Summary style]] to call it a consensus recommendation, because it does seem to be one.
- d.