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
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