Thread:Douglas Blacktyde/@comment-1264592-20140605040222

Hi, and thank you for your contributions. I would like to ask you to trim selectively instead of just cutting off the article after the 250 character. The point of trimming is to maintain enough flavor text to tease the reader and give them a taste of the action (without going over 250 characters). Also, please insert […] when trimming something so that the readers would know that they aren't seeing the entire original text (the ellipse in […] is a glyph which counts as only 1 character, so it's better than writing three dots).

Here's an example. The aim is to retain as much info as possible in the same 250 characters. In this case, have an explaantion of why you succeeded or failed in the end, at the cost of non-necessary text at the begining.

Finally, if the trimmed text is very long and important it'd be great if you could summarize it. We're always looking for summaries because we want to move this wiki to a user-generated direction, but with long articles (like "Get away from him!") summaries are particularly important. For example, the failed part of Bid for a straightforward design job. 