User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20151101001641/@comment-5918438-20160104072634

You bring up some interesting things to note in leads. (Though I know you're currently busy and I found this thread quite late,) I would definitely encourage you to add to those articles with any information that makes those stories special, or different from the others. There are no rules, really, on what is or isn't lead-worthy. It's more a matter of what is most lead-worthy—ie. what you don't bother saying when there's much more note-worthy and interesting points to bring up instead. But articles all must start somewhere, and often that's with very baseline leads, just stating very basic information, often written out by someone who doesn't own the story. Definitely, if you see those and you have some things you'd like to add, point out, in the lead—add as you please! :) I trust in your judgment as to whether or not something is note-worthy.

I do agree with Shambala, that it's not redundant at all to mention things in the article that are brought up in the infobox, and in fact this is expected. Infoboxes are there for review, for quick information; the same info should be present in proper prose, in the article itself. On everything else you say, though: yes, yes, yes, yes and yes yes yes.