Thread:Edkaufman/@comment-4537153-20120507004729/@comment-1009000-20120508071827

not a problem. as I said, it's not alway a quest of grammar and spelling, sometimes, there is style as well. You brought up the x-men pages: they are very much overdetailed and cluttered with unnecessary information, and in fact, at the moment, there is an editor going through them to shorten them.

you cannot make a policy with this, because there are too many "soft" factors involved in making a decision. but there is an old communicative rule: KISS - keep it short and simple. So basically, whenever you make an edit, ask yourself: can I write this shorter? Is this information really relevant? This can change over time as well. A lot of editors keep adding almost the whole summaries of every comic a charact appears in to the bottom of their characte bios. We usually let it stand for awhile, but after a few months, it is necessray to shorten it, otherwise the articles become unreadable.