On 8/24/06, Martin Peeks martin@peeks2.fsworld.co.uk wrote:
I feel that "Good writers always welcome" may deter some people who perhaps would feel that their contributions wouldn't be good enough - or worse still make people think that there is a selection process for editors. It sounds like a job advertisement, or an advert for membership to an exclusive club, where all that you say and do will be closely scrutinised - now if that's what Wikipedia has become, then it's a very sad thing - which we definitely should not be telling prospective editors - we need to encourage them to make that first contrib. - and give them helpful feedback where they make mistakes - not discourage them at the first hurdle.
Definitely. We are not an exclusive club. We're more like a public gathering, where police throw out the few troublemakers.
Steve