Forum:Temporary forums/Relaxing the past-tense requirement: Difference between revisions

More serious perhaps is the matter of our run-on-sentence-laden in-universe ledes which fail to communicate essential BTS information effectively. But that's very much outside the scope of a thread titled for merely "relaxing the past-tense requirement". For what it's worth, I find myself more sympathetic than not to the idea of an OOU "header" that complements the in-universe lede without replacing it; yes, yes, one more template, clutter, etc., but consider that mainteance templates like {{tlx|cleanup}} are "clutter" because the vast majority of readers and indeed editors are ''not'' going to act on their content, nor even consider doing so, so it's just an irrelevant hurdle they have to scroll past. It wouldn't be clutter in at all the same way if the box contained important information ''directed'' at casual readers, now would it? But as I said, this is way, way out from the scope of this thread and should be reviewed in a different one.

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