On 10/9/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
If editors are supposed to take great writing seriously, we must give it
the
highest possible award.
Jimmy Wales, here's something you could make happen.
I *demand* that we have a guaranteed daily place on the main page, to be reserved solely for articles chosen for their great writing.
Anything less is a display of lack of commitment in our goal--to be as
good
as, or better than, any other encyclopaedia, free or otherwise, with digraphs or without.
This is totally to the community to 1) write very good articles and 2) agree that they are very good and 3) put them on the main page.
How can Jimbo make that happen more than you ???
It isn't going to happen if he doesn't make it happen. The Featured Article process is tortuous and review-based, and the quality of writing it produces is at best mediocre.
If we really are going to take great writing seriously, we should try to identify editors who are capable of doing it and encourage them to do so. This means that an article may lack pictures, and even be a little short of references. The footnotes may be uneven. But the article will be a pleasure to read and provide good coverage of the topic.