[WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing the XML article

[Ken Arromdee]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> Here is the point. If an expert can't explain the subject to other 
> editors who are not experts, how in the world are they going to 
> explain it in the article?

It's quite possible to explain it to other people while being unable to explain
it to the specific other people who are complaining.

In other words: they can explain it to article readers because the article
readers are less biased and have less of an incentive to misunderstand than
the people on the talk page.