Talk:Readability

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It would be nice to have something about how accurate / useful these are.

This article should link to a discussion of the readability of articles in Wikipedia.

Here is an example of a comment from one of the mathematically-oriented articles (M-theory): "the article is unreadable to non-experts and probably useless to experts".JWSchmidt 13:33, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Maybe there should be a readability comparison section. It could use the same passage through many of the readability algorithms. This would really help people understand how the scores differ between them.

[edit] Understandability

Why does this redirect here while related words redirect to understanding? (like understood and understandable) TheBlazikenMaster 22:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grade

When many high-school graduates read at the 8th-grade level, at which level do 8th-graders usually read? Or put in another way: how did someone come up with categorization in nth-grade levels? --Abdull (talk) 16:33, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Common measures of readability of text

I've just added this section, which contains:

• A list of common measures.
• Notes on computerised tools. Disclosure: I have no financial or other interest in the promotion of the tools mentioned. Philcha (talk) 10:35, 16 April 2008 (UTC)