Talk:Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

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600 word summary

In articles about books, the convention is to keep the summary of the content to a maximum of 600 words. I think this needs to be applied to the current article. As of this version, the section "Content" has 2,863 words, including some excessively specific detail about the implementation of the convention. Some of this section is about how the convention was negotiated, and this needs to be moved to a more relevant section so that a section of the article is dedicated to a summary of the content. Hence I intend to do, and am in the process of, a quite drastic reduction in the text size of the article. The style of the article when I started was very repetitive and uses a lot of internal UN terminology that will baffle the lay reader, so there are multiple reasons why the text needs to be cut down. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:54, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Update: After greatly cutting down, it's down to 1,229 words. For now, I'll not try any drastic further cuts because that would leave some of the meat of the convention unrepresented. A possible way forward is to be less document-centric: rather than summarising the full content of the document in sequence, having sections describing what goals it proposed, what actions it required states to take etc. MartinPoulter (talk) 14:34, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]