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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    MoS guidelines for opening paragraphs and lead sentences should generally be followed. The opening paragraph of a biographical article should neutrally describe the person, provide context, establish notability and explain why the person is notable, and reflect the balance of reliable sources.

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    Under the main guideline on this, the opening paragraph of a biographical article should neutrally describe the person, provide context, establish notability and explain why the person is notable, and reflect the balance of reliable sources. The first sentence should usually state: Name(s) and title(s), if any (see also WP:NCNOB).

  4. Wikipedia:Writing better articles - Wikipedia

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    When the topic changes, a new paragraph should be started. Overly long paragraphs should be split up, as long as the cousin paragraphs keep the idea in focus. One-sentence paragraphs are unusually emphatic, and should be used sparingly. Some paragraphs are really tables or lists in disguise. They should be rewritten as prose or converted to ...

  5. Whoopi Goldberg is drawing criticism for describing herself ...

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    "I work for a living. If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here," Goldberg said.

  6. Stereotype - Wikipedia

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    During an ostensibly unrelated impression-formation task, subjects read a paragraph describing a race-unspecified target person's behaviors and rated the target person on several trait scales. Results showed that participants who received a high proportion of racial words rated the target person in the story as significantly more hostile than ...

  7. Wikipedia:Short description - Wikipedia

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    Ideally, each page should have its own purpose-written short description. It is the editor's responsibility to ensure the short description is appropriate, accurate and compliant with Wikipedia's policies, particularly for biographies of living people and for medical articles.

  8. A Path Out Of Trouble - The Huffington Post

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    And after a 2007 decision to raise the age that young people can be tried as adults, from 16 to 18, the state has also reduced the number of teenagers heading to adult prisons. Child advocates say that, while imperfect, the collective effort of judges, educators, attorneys and state lawmakers has helped the state rethink its relationship to ...

  9. People who knew Luigi Mangione describe him as 'thoughtful ...

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    The person, who asked to not be named, said, “I never got the impression he would self-destruct.” Maryland state lawmaker Nino Mangione, a cousin, shared a short statement from the Mangione ...