User talk:Gatorkid

April 2012
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University of Florida
Greetings. While I appreciate your recent attempts to add the academic rankings of several of the university's engineering and other STEM programs to the main body text, there is no need to stuff these rankings into the lead section. The lead is intended as an overview and summary of the article as a whole; it is not intended to recapitulate the entire article in detail. The lead already includes reference to the university's academic rankings among other state universities and also among all public universities. It does not include individual rankings of particular academic programs, and for good reason. For instance, if we are going to include the rankings for engineering college in the lead, this is cherry-picking without a purpose. Why not also include the accounting program, the MBA program, the law school, the Ph.D. program in food and resources economics, the medical school, the graduate chemistry program, the graduate program in public administration, and on and on and on? Or for that matter, why don't we list every national sports championship ever won by a Gators sports team? Including the specific program rankings in the text is an improvement; overwhelming the lead with a sea of factoids merely diminishes the impact of the overview information already presented. Please do not turn the lead section into a repository of trivia. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:23, 16 April 2012 (UTC)