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says when it's over 15K words, it should be divided or trimmed. Looks like it is around 9.7K words. So it could be trimmed to somewhere between 6K-8K words. And/or another possibility is to just split out the "Types" section, which is about 2.3K words, and leave behind a summary section.
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For some topics, four paragraphs would be a lot, but considering that this is a type of film that has a long history, it's definitely suitable, like with any film genre article or article about the history of film in some country. Furthermore, MOS:LEAD says,
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I'll prune it a bit eventually. I was probably a bit too thorough, but it's a broad topic, and – at the time of it was rewritten – it was still policy compliant. Things could have changed in the past 10 years.
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Yeah, splitting out the "types of cult films" section was something I had considered. It seems like it could potentially stand on its own. If someone
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No, it's perfectly fine. That page says it should be "four well-composed paragraphs", which this is. The article passed a GA with that lead.
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Surely the paragraphs themselves could be pared down? I know this is an article of which you are proud, but don’t allow this pride to
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and considering the article's length (about 9,200 words), fitting an overview into four paragraphs involves a lot of summarizing.
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split the article, that's what I'd recommend they spin out.
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This article is very wordy imo, should be split a bit up.
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cloud your judgement in this respect. Just my two cents
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