Mark Williamson ti 2005/3/11 EP 08:58 sia-kong:
I think we should clarify something so we don't
get people's knickers
in a knot over it: what you say about the article on area not
including more than passing mention of imperial units, does /not/ mean
there could not be a separate article about them.
Theoretically we could have articles on anything and everything that has
relevance to more than a few people in the world. But I am talking
about actual practices: writing readable articles that avoid being
overly verbose, lengthy, technical, pedantic, or represented in "pure
mathetmatics" by assuming certain base knowledge, i.e. a specific
readership. As far as I can see, all en: Featured Articles do so. And
that means leaving out certain things not of interest or relevance to
English speakers while retaining others. It would be a mistake to
assume such well-written articles are necessarily universal in relevance
or otherwise devoid of cultural assumptions as to be meaningful to other
language speakers without all sorts of post-translation re-editing if
not rewriting.
Would that be "eng-chè"?
I don't know. The topic has yet to be written down (or the article spun
off) due to its lower relevance :)