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diff --git a/wikiq b/wikiq
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+++ b/wikiq
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--collapse-user', dest="collapse_user", action="store_true"
                     help="Operate only on the final revision made by user a user within all sequences of consecutive edits made by a user. This can be useful for addressing issues with text persistence measures.")
 
 parser.add_argument('-p', '--persistence', dest="persist", default=None, const='', type=str, choices = ['','segment','sequence','legacy'], nargs='?',
-                    help="Compute and report measures of content persistent: (1) persistent token revisions, (2) tokens added, and (3) number of revision used in computing the first measure. This may by slow.  Use -p=segment for advanced persistence calculation method that is robust to content moves. This might be very slow. Use -p=legacy for legacy behavior.")
+                    help="Compute and report measures of content persistent: (1) persistent token revisions, (2) tokens added, and (3) number of revision used in computing the first measure. This may by slow.  The defualt is -p=sequence, which uses the same algorithm as in the past, but with improvements to wikitext parsing. Use -p=legacy for old behavior used in older research projects. Use -p=segment for advanced persistence calculation method that is robust to content moves, but prone to bugs, and slower.")
 
 parser.add_argument('-u', '--url-encode', dest="urlencode", action="store_true",
                     help="Output url encoded text strings. This works around some data issues like newlines in editor names. In the future it may be used to output other text data.")