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Slightly off-topic, but related in a way. IMO it would be good if this sentence were standardized. Not good to put important info here, too easy to miss. So something short like "N-EDO or N-ET divides the octave into N equal steps." No need to say what the step size is, since the template covers that now. The phrase "equal steps" could link back to the main EDO page, which would be handy when comparing EDOs. --[[User:TallKite|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite|talk]]) 23:05, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

: I think the introduction (a section with a few sentences) is invaluable. We learn that from the silent but effective Wikipedia-Google collaboration: The question "What is <Random Xen Lemma>?" typed in the input line of Google or any other search engine should not only give results from the XenWiki in the first matches but the XenWiki result should also give the short answer. This is what the introduction is for. This is the reason why it has to start the article directly under the H1 (=lemma) header. The introduction should be readable, informative, and short. I know this is sometimes not easy but it's good to invest time here. Look into Wikipedia to find good examples: they have definitely a higher ratio of great introductions than we have. Standardization may not be a bad thing but an introduction that can be written by a bot is not an introduction a human reader wants to read (and the best search engines have increasingly good algorithms for distinguishing readable - and worth-to read - text from pseudo text). BTW: this is true for all articles. --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 23:42, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

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	Slightly off-topic, but related in a way. IMO it would be good if this sentence were standardized. Not good to put important info here, too easy to miss. So something short like "N-EDO or N-ET divides the octave into N equal steps." No need to say what the step size is, since the template covers that now. The phrase "equal steps" could link back to the main EDO page, which would be handy when comparing EDOs. --[[User:TallKite\|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite\|talk]]) 23:05, 16 December 2020 (UTC)		Slightly off-topic, but related in a way. IMO it would be good if this sentence were standardized. Not good to put important info here, too easy to miss. So something short like "N-EDO or N-ET divides the octave into N equal steps." No need to say what the step size is, since the template covers that now. The phrase "equal steps" could link back to the main EDO page, which would be handy when comparing EDOs. --[[User:TallKite\|TallKite]] ([[User talk:TallKite\|talk]]) 23:05, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

			: I think the introduction (a section with a few sentences) is invaluable. We learn that from the silent but effective Wikipedia-Google collaboration: The question "What is <Random Xen Lemma>?" typed in the input line of Google or any other search engine should not only give results from the XenWiki in the first matches but the XenWiki result should also give the short answer. This is what the introduction is for. This is the reason why it has to start the article directly under the H1 (=lemma) header. The introduction should be readable, informative, and short. I know this is sometimes not easy but it's good to invest time here. Look into Wikipedia to find good examples: they have definitely a higher ratio of great introductions than we have. Standardization may not be a bad thing but an introduction that can be written by a bot is not an introduction a human reader wants to read (and the best search engines have increasingly good algorithms for distinguishing readable - and worth-to read - text from pseudo text). BTW: this is true for all articles. --[[User:Xenwolf\|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf\|talk]]) 23:42, 16 December 2020 (UTC)