Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:31:05 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
What, like the personal essays on character traits of various characters in video games? I would say that is *objectively* crap :-)
You'd be wrong.
Not really. Personal essays are not allowed by policy, after all.
You're shifting the goalposts from the subject of the article to the quality and style of the writing in it, reread the part of my response that you snipped and that should be clear. It's a fallacy along the lines of "pies laced with arsenic are dangerous, ergo we should ban pies."
An article about a video game character that's in the form of a personal essay should be rewritten to match our manual of style, not necessarily deleted. There could well be plenty of useful information in it retained in the resulting article so the original essay isn't necessarily "crap".