Talk:India: Difference between revisions

::You have not even bothered to read the beginning of this section where I stated that if you remove the citations, people begin to dicker with the lead. Its not like we always had citations. [[User:Fowler&amp;fowler|<span style="color:#B8860B">Fowler&amp;fowler</span>]][[User talk:Fowler&amp;fowler|<span style="color:#708090">«Talk»</span>]] 13:40, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

:::In other words, it is easy to wax about generalities, but much harder to actually formulate something. Typically on this page, we propose changes a sentence at a time. Please propose a specific change in a specific sentence and give some evidence of its [[wP:DUE|due weight]] in the literature. [[User:Fowler&amp;fowler|<span style="color:#B8860B">Fowler&amp;fowler</span>]][[User talk:Fowler&amp;fowler|<span style="color:#708090">«Talk»</span>]] 13:46, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

:::Yes, I have read that part. And I think the fact that other users frequently challenge statements and add citations to the lead is not a valid argument against keeping it clean. It's very well possible; you can revert those edits, protect the page more strictly, and add comments for editors pointing out where certain claims are already sourced in the body of the article. Numerous other frequently edited and highly visited country articles like [[United States]], [[Canada]] [[China]], [[Japan]], [[Germany]], and [[Russia]] have also managed to keep their leads clean. Also, I never said that this article has to have a completely sourceless lead: Simply reducing the number of citations would already make the lead much cleaner. For example, the [[United Kingdom]] article has approximately half the number of citations in its lead compared to this article, which is still relatively high, but looks already much cleaner. In addition, when the lead is shortened in content, citations would of course also become fewer in parallel. [[User:Maxeto0910|Maxeto0910]] ([[User talk:Maxeto0910|talk]]) 15:14, 13 September 2024 (UTC)