User:Femke/sandbox2

This is a selection of articles which were saved at FAR over the last few years. I've used the current word count, given that the FARs were all reasonably recent. Double checked a few to see if there was a systemic bias towards lead changes, which there wasn't.

Article	Words 28-11-2023	Sentences	Words per sentence	Words at FAR	Difference
The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)	241	12	20
Climate change	486	28	17
Battle of Tippecanoe	270	13	21
Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory	273	12	23
Renewable energy in Scotland	269	12	22
The Million Dollar Homepage	311	10	31	304	7
Caroline Island	185	7	26
Weymouth, Dorset	250	11	23
Battle of Blenheim	450	17	26	421	29
War of the Fifth Coalition	440	19	23	434	6
Menstrual cycle	352	18	20
Group (mathematics)	382	15	25
Spiderland	264	14	19
Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector	349	14	25
Nigel Kneale	183	8	23
Kellie Loder	287	12	24
Wii	513	22	23	483	30
Frédéric Chopin	487	23	21	527	-40
Speed of light	550	22	25	575	-25
Cirrus cloud	291	16	18
Darjeeling	539	23	23	538	1
Green children of Woolpit	329	12	27
Elizabeth II	449	17	26	456	-7
M-28 Business (Ishpeming–Negaunee, Michigan)	206	16	13
90377 Sedna	407	18	23	399	8
Jefferson Davis	381	23	17
History of Timekeeping devices	532	22	24
Leonhard Euler	523	15	35
Malcolm X	488	20	24
Lee Smith	281	11	26
Mean	366	16	23		1
Median	339	16	23
10% percentile	237	11	18
90% percentile	524	23	27

Combined with the December 2022 set, 10% percentile is 206 words, 90% is 488 words, the 5% is 185 and 95% is 523 words.

For sentences, the 5% is 7, 10% is 9, 90% is 22, 95% is 23.

Conclusion: let's say that leads are often between 200 and 500 words and sentences 10 to 20.