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Lack of claim to notability in lead sentence[edit]
The first sentence of the lead says this gang is a notorious drug ring but fails to back this up by explaining that the gang ... distributed approximately 1,000 kilograms of cocaine in the New Orleans metropolitan area and ... committed murders, attempted murders, and other violent crimes. This article is meant to be an article about the Metz Gang, yet we are informed about Glenn Metz, and his brother, Cordell, before we find out about why the gang has attained notoriety. This is a distraction and results in a confusing mess of information that is not explained in the body of the article. The way this article's lead is currently worded, it reads like it could be a coatrack article for the biographies of Glenn, Cordell and Danielle Metz. While I am not averse to these people having their own biographic sections in the context of the larger article, they do not, of themselves, seem to be separately notable individuals outside the context of the gang, so I wonder why we are introduced to them so early in the article and discover their fate before we find out what the gang, collectively, did. The lead section ought to be a summary of the article, not drop names without explaining the wider context, first. Currently, the article appears to give undue weight to the founders and not enough to the overall gang. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 05:29, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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