On 14/04/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
cbeckhorn@fastmail.fm writes:
I don't think there is much support in contempory critical theory for the idea that a writer can write without presenting a point of view, or that a reader can read without a point of view. >>
We are however, not "writers writing". We are "editors editing". Without this agreement, we won't have a place from which to argue. If you believe you are a writer, an author, a creator of new and interesting expression, then you don't belong on Wikipedia.
We call our contributors editors, but that name also covers many other roles - fact-checkers and coders and photographers and proofreaders and, yes, writers.
The project absolutely requires people to act as writers; we would be nothing without them. Before we can edit, we must have material *to* edit. We may not wish for the expression of original opinions, but we do need original writing.