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***Presents the purpose of the article in a way that will be understood by someone completely new to the article's concept, with links to articles about concepts that are necessary prerequisites.

***Regardless of the topic (advanced or not), includes absolutely no math theory terminology beyond high school level, unless it is very, very commonly used in Xenharmonic music discussions, and links to/toward beginner-level articles are provided. If no such article exists, omit that terminology from the introduction, and present it later with a redlink to create that article. There are certainly also alternative ways to address the serious Xenharmonic Wiki problem of inaccessible articles that understandably frighten off musicians without a higher math degree. There are occasional paired articles, one for beginners (e.g. [[Mapping]]) and one for advanced readers (e.g. [[Temperament mapping matrices]]) — see [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Beginner|list of beginner pages]]/[[:Category:Beginner pages|Category:Beginner page]]<nowiki/>s, [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Expert|list of expert pages]]/[[:Category:Expert pages|Category:Expert pages]]. This can be an effective approach but requires substantially more work.

**Sections that divide the article into different depths of understanding, i.e. that require the reader to have less or more preexisting understandings. More advanced understandings belong in sections later in the article. This is true even formore advanced articles, because in effective narrative nonfiction writing there is always a progression of understanding.

**Sections that divide the article into different depths of understanding, i.e. that require the reader to have less or more preexisting understandings. More advanced understandings belong in sections later in the article. This is true even formore advanced articles, because in effective narrative nonfiction writing there is always a progression of understanding. Some possible terms for the non-math/math sectional division (these can be mixed and matched): Elementary/Technical, Basic/Advanced, Fundamental/Detailed.

**No list or table without an effective explanation of its contents.

**It might be reasonable to use the [[:Category:Todo|Category:Todo]] tags to mark articles that need a plain-language introductory paragraph. However, there several possible Todo tags that might apply and perhaps should be merged: [[:Category:Todo:add introduction|Todo:add introduction]] or [[:Category:Todo:intro|Todo:intro]] or [[:Category:Todo:improve synopsis|Todo:improve synopsis]]. Does Todo:intro mean something different from Todo:improve synopsis?

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 ***Presents the purpose of the article in a way that will be understood by someone completely new to the article's concept, with links to articles about concepts that are necessary prerequisites.
 ***Regardless of the topic (advanced or not), includes absolutely no math theory terminology beyond high school level, unless it is very, very commonly used in Xenharmonic music discussions, and links to/toward beginner-level articles are provided. If no such article exists, omit that terminology from the introduction, and present it later with a redlink to create that article. There are certainly also alternative ways to address the serious Xenharmonic Wiki problem of inaccessible articles that understandably frighten off musicians without a higher math degree. There are occasional paired articles, one for beginners (e.g. [[Mapping]]) and one for advanced readers (e.g. [[Temperament mapping matrices]]) — see [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Beginner|list of beginner pages]]/[[:Category:Beginner pages|Category:Beginner page]]<nowiki/>s, [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Expert|list of expert pages]]/[[:Category:Expert pages|Category:Expert pages]]. This can be an effective approach but requires substantially more work.
-**Sections that divide the article into different depths of understanding, i.e. that require the reader to have less or more preexisting understandings. More advanced understandings belong in sections later in the article. This is true even formore advanced articles, because in effective narrative nonfiction writing there is always a progression of understanding.
+**Sections that divide the article into different depths of understanding, i.e. that require the reader to have less or more preexisting understandings. More advanced understandings belong in sections later in the article. This is true even formore advanced articles, because in effective narrative nonfiction writing there is always a progression of understanding. Some possible terms for the non-math/math sectional division (these can be mixed and matched): Elementary/Technical, Basic/Advanced, Fundamental/Detailed.
 **No list or table without an effective explanation of its contents.
 **It might be reasonable to use the [[:Category:Todo|Category:Todo]] tags to mark articles that need a plain-language introductory paragraph. However, there several possible Todo tags that might apply and perhaps should be merged: [[:Category:Todo:add introduction|Todo:add introduction]] or [[:Category:Todo:intro|Todo:intro]] or [[:Category:Todo:improve synopsis|Todo:improve synopsis]]. Does Todo:intro mean something different from Todo:improve synopsis?