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Now that Vector 2022 is the default, the contents is at the side; part 2 no longer makes sense. סשס [[User:Grimmchild|<span style="color:#600060;">Grimmchild.</span>]][[User talk: Grimmchild| <span style="color:#600060;">He/him, probably</span>]] 10:56, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

== Standard Sections ==

A brief introduction to the main standard sections relevant to many articles would be helpful.

I am particularly interested in introducing a standard ‘Lay Summary’ section. I believe this could be valuable to help non specialists get a handle on the subject. Also very helpful for inspiring briefer articles for non specialists.

Wikipedia has often been accused of bias. The bias I believe needs most attention is it is easy for specialist articles to ignore wider audiences, especially those less educated on particular subjects.

I suggest Simple English Wikipedias could be a significant beneficiary of such standardised sections and encourage those articles to cross reference to the specialist articles that they used.

A lay summary, perhaps with a note on who a lay person is assumed to be could help.

I have been inspired by medical articles in major magazines having lay summaries.

I don’t know a good way to raise this issue without getting very involved in Wikipedia and all the time and energy that involves, along with how that impacts my personal life. [[User:CuriousMarkE|CuriousMarkE]] ([[User talk:CuriousMarkE|talk]]) 05:41, 9 July 2024 (UTC)