> I find "an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln" to be a ridiculous introduction; it should read "an American assassin who killed P

> I find "an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln" to be a ridiculous introduction; it should read "an American assassin who killed President Abraham Lincoln" One sentence fragment conveys that Lincoln was assassinated, the assassin's nationality, and the assassin's profession in 67 characters. The other conveys that Lincoln was assassinated and the assassin's nationality in 58 characters. You like the wrong sentence. It's stylistically kooky, too: you need to point out that an assassin killed someone? That doesn't feel a little redundant to you? > the man's profession is completely irrelevant Hardly. But mostly it's strange that you'd want wikipedia to make that determination for you. It's not necessary. > "Standard wikipedia formatting" being burying the lead is not a compelling defense. Burying the lede would involve putting the information you're burying somewhere other than the middle of the first sentence of the first paragraph.