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“An article should not be a complete presentation of all possible details, but a summary of accepted knowledge regarding its subject“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...
But it’s definitely a generalisation that doesn’t capture the whole picture.
“Rare words carry the most” basically conveys what you’re saying but just more vague. And I think that’s a really important distinction. Rare words reduce ambiguity and increase the specificity of your sentence, but they don’t necessarily carry the most meaning.