On 5/16/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher(a)student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
On 5/16/06,
Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
I think a fair number of people need to be kicked
out of the project
just for being lousy writers. (This is not a policy statement, just a
statement of attitude and frustration.)
... The problem isn't
"lousy writers", /per se/, but lousy writers
who think they're God's gift to the written word.
Poor writing is what's most noticeable about our articles and it's not
invariably because of people who aren't able to write, but often
because of laziness. Someone'll make an edit that changes the flow of
a paragraph but then won't bother to tidy up after themselves, so one
paragraph ends up saying the same thing three times in different ways;
or a sentence will contradict the sentence that comes after it. It
would be good if we could somehow raise people's consciousness about
the importance of narrative flow.
Sarah