Awhite07

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:45, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Lead sections

Hi! To answer your questions, lead sections should have or do the following:

• The first sentence should give a general, succinct definition of postmodern feminism. Don't worry about covering all of the various details - this should be a single sentence.

• This should pull on the most major, important points of the article. There is going to be a lot of information in the body, so don't worry about the finer details - the lead is kind of an overview. That said, the lead should generally only contain information that is already in the body of the article.

• This should not contain any material that is an opinion, original research, or promotional terms. Essentially, no drawing of conclusions or saying that a specific person or facet of postmodern feminism is awesome.

This is the most basic synopsis of what the lead should have. I would definitely recommend looking over the lead for the feminism article, as this is an excellent example of how the lead should be written and formatted. Make sure that you don't go into too many complicated details in the lead and also keep in mind that while the lead can greatly resemble an abstract for a paper, there are some major differences - one of which is that abstracts are often written persuasively, whereas Wikipedia article leads should not.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:35, 16 April 2019 (UTC)