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:That's an awful lot of parenthetical information in an opening sentence that otherwise just says "Alexander the Great was an ancient Greek king of Macedon".  Not that the information is unnecessary, but it doesn't need to clutter up the opening sentence.  Bugler's suggestion helps reduce that clutter, but I don't really agree with deliberately leaving out more precise information if it is available.  We could have a template (i.e. a box to the side) with detailed information about the person (birth date/month/year and death date/month/year, plus other information) ''and'' have just the birth and death years (or even just the birth year) in the opening sentence, if we thought that wasn't unnecessary duplication.

:That's an awful lot of parenthetical information in an opening sentence that otherwise just says "Alexander the Great was an ancient Greek king of Macedon".  Not that the information is unnecessary, but it doesn't need to clutter up the opening sentence.  Bugler's suggestion helps reduce that clutter, but I don't really agree with deliberately leaving out more precise information if it is available.  We could have a template (i.e. a box to the side) with detailed information about the person (birth date/month/year and death date/month/year, plus other information) ''and'' have just the birth and death years (or even just the birth year) in the opening sentence, if we thought that wasn't unnecessary duplication.

: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:05, 17 October 2008 (EDT)

: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 11:05, 17 October 2008 (EDT)

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