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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] a valid criticism
From:       Ryan Norton <wxprojects () comcast ! net>
Date:       2005-10-08 0:28:01
Message-ID: 6242D068-3792-11DA-8678-000A95940788 () comcast ! net
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> It's that they are badly written.  A confusing mishmash of random facts
> not shaped into a coherent whole.  Others have written eloquently on
> this, and on why this might be the case.  The puzzle, though, is: what
> can be done about it.

Encourage people to become better writers?

I admit that even though I have a FA (autism) I'm not a very good 
writer for an encyclopedia. Peer review and FAC are great except I 
don't know how much they help in this part (and the criticism is rather 
harsh sometimes for those who can't take it). I always have a tendency 
to write novel-like for these articles, but of course I don't because 
its an encyclopedia, so a lot of times its just a bunch of well 
structured, but unconnected facts...

Thanks,
Ryan

[[User:RN]] at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RN
Ryan Norton at wxforum: http://wxforum.org

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