On 8/30/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds good. But fergoshsakes just put the info in a table. Worst thing about the town rambot articles is that they're pretty crappy prose but it never gets edited, ever; second is that the demographic information came from a table and should be presented as a table, not as crappy prose.
Yeah. I bet over time the crappy prose of all these town articles will slowly be edited in different directions, becoming different, equally crappy, prose.
I was tempted to edit one once, then realised how many times I'd have to repeat my work. Eek.
And since we're having a whinge, the other problem with an article like that is you think it's actually fairly complete. You'd think that 3-4 paragraphs of text would be a decent amount for a small town. Whereas it covers the demographics, and that's it - no history, no geography, no "the construction of a Walmart caused uproar in 2005".
Steve