On 02/09/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Yes. Wikipedia is distinctly short of good prose writers, as a percentage of contributors.
It doesn't help an article whose prose is already good when a string of subsequent editors make their little changes throughout the article without regard to the larger stylistic picture.
I'd say having the details is of primary importance. Untangling the sentence structure does come immediate second, though, not third or later.
- d.