Editing Encyclopedia:Writing better articles/Establish context (section)

==For/against ordering==
''From Village Pump 10th September 2003''
I'd like to propose a new addition to the Wikipedia style, and I'm not sure where else to suggest it. What I would like to see is a guideline that in any article, if there is more than one point of view, descriptions of the article subject come first, and arguments against it come later. So when I went to an article on Global Warming, say, I got a description of Global Warming first and objections to it later. Likewise when I go to ''Creationism'' I should find out what creationists believe first, and only then any reasons why people might think they are wrong. [[User:DJ Clayworth|DJ Clayworth]] 20:49, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)

:Sounds reasonable to me.  Apart from the fairness issues, it makes the article more comprehensible, as it's rather difficult to contextualize arguments against a position without first having explained the position.  In fact, this is my major complaint with the reverse ordering some articles currently have -- they seem to present the arguments as if they're talking to someone who already is familiar with the subject, and I have to read further to find out what it was they were actually talking about.  On the other hand, if it's a controversial topic, the intro should mention this; it's just the specific objections that should be left for later in the article, not the fact that there are objections in the first place. --[[User:Delirium|Delirium]] 20:58, Aug 27, 2003 (UTC)