On 09/07/05, Jon thagudearbh@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
It would be useful (if we don't already have it somewhere that I've missed) to have a firm statement that says articles should be written to be as intelligible to as many of our readers as possible, with our readers being anyone potentially searching for English-language information on the internet.
Jon (jguk)
I guess you can't force people to write in a certain style.
But it's daft to write an encyclopaedia in an academic style. No academic in his right mind would refer to Wikipedia - I don't mean any offense, but that's just not it's place. They go to journals and texts.
What it is useful - what it should be aiming for - is to make subjects understandable to the 99.99% of the world that *isn't* expert in that field.
Dan