In a message dated 4/7/2008 11:57:14 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
Actually, and this is my complaint, we currently demand that a person *unskilled* in the art be able to do it.>>
-------------------------------------------------------------- That might be a change. I do recall debating the exact language of that section several months ago. I drifted away from some policy pages for a bit.
I'm sure the argument would be something like "If you cannot convince the reader that your ...deduction... follows, then you're not very good at writing" ;) Sort of an antagonistic approach, but perhaps reasonable in some regard.
If you are having a particular issue, with a particular article, I'd like to see it, to get a feel of the underlying philosophical issues more concretely. It's sometimes hard to argue hypothetically, the cognitive dissonance compels me to spend days writing up position papers for WP.
Will Johnson
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