It's part of a series of articles promoting better writing. That is helpful.
Well for one thing it seems to ignore its own advice- it would just be simpler to say "Brevity is wit".
You want to specifically say something about Word Cruft? There's already a page for that. Quotes too long? Page for that.
Are shorter examples necessarily better? No. The perfect example is as long as it needs to be and no longer. Are X Just X or "'nuff said" witty? No. The page admits as such.
The parts of it that aren't redundant are misleading. Too many guidelines have a problem. They can end up being too conflicting or overlapping and that leads to none of them sticking out.
Edited by SomeSortOfTroper
We're narrative analysts who look for tropes and discuss tropes. We'd want to be brief?
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Why not?
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