User talk:BeforeItMoves

Ethanol
Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. I had to revert your edit to ethanol. The lead section of an article is supposed to be an overview of the body of the article, without giving undue emphasis to any particular section of the body. It isn't a place to introduce facts that aren't covered in more detail in the body. Your edit may fit better in the alcohol (drug) article instead, keeping in mind what the lead section is for. See MOS:LEAD for more guidance. Thanks! ~Anachronist (talk) 08:28, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

And why is that? The page for MDMA clearly lists death as a consequence of use in the second paragraph, not to mention the adverse effects. Which, for ethanol's sake, are definitively listed in this article. Just trying to keep us all informed. BeforeItMoves (talk) 08:48, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * MDMA has a whole entire section dedicated to adverse effects, so the lead should include a one-line summary of that. This is in line with MOS:LEAD. In contrast, the article on ethanol has a short, 2-line section on safety, which says nothing about deaths. In other words, what you added wasn't an overview summary of anything in the body of the article. ~Anachronist (talk) 18:19, 29 January 2018 (UTC)