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 ::I, quite frankly, don't see the point. I think our current policy is perfectly sensible. With respect to ledes, however, I '''strongly reject''' the idea that they should be written from an OOU perspective. A small box like the one Nate suggests might be a workable compromise if people think this is a good idea, with 2-3 sentences. But I'm very much against anything past that. [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 04:06, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
+:::I also strongly '''reject''' the "present tense in leads" proposal. Looking at it from an admin / enforcement of policy point of view this would be an absolute nightmare to police, it would open up countless cans of worms of people asking 'well why is it present here but not here'.
+:::We already have mostly clearly explained reasons why we have it all in the past tense, this would needlessly complicate things.
+:::I also agree with [[User:Epsilon the Eternal|Epsilon]] that we do not need more templates, and that limiting to a few sentences would force us to focus on only one element like their performance in the Jo Grant example above. Which would go against our [[T:VS]] of not counting one story / medium above another.
+:::I agree that [[T:OOU]] needs some re-writing to emphasise how to write an article in the past tense without implying their demise. —[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 04:49, 7 April 2023 (UTC)