No that was someone's idea, but not mine. I like having the "Make a Comment" button at the bottom of each article, as this would mimic what readers are used to seeing at other sites. I don't that this would create a seperate section on the Talk page however, as I think this would clutter the Talk page with a lot of casual comments. When you read the comments on say a YouTube video, you get a lot of one-liners and people talking back and forth and so on. I don't see this as a way to improve the article, only a way to allow casual readers to make comments. It seems like just that possibly more-friendly approach might bring people into the project as editors as well. I'm not sure it would, it's a trial balloon.
Will
-----Original Message----- From: Emily Monroe bluecaliocean@me.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 11:20 am Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments
I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what sorts of things are OK for comments.
I thought we were talking about how to make the talk page more accessible...
Emily On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:19 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 9/3/2009 7:21:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bluecaliocean@me.com writes:
Yeah, but see, the thing is, you don't "own" the blog. The person writing it does (well, technically, the blog hosting service does). They have the right to not have a comment show up. We could use the same argument on Wikipedia.>>
What? That Wikipedia puts a "comment on this article" and someone says "I love this person" and "we" or at least someone decides that fan mail is not something we want ?
I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what sorts of things are OK for comments.
Will
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