On 11/26/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
If your writing is totally dependant on what you know, then you probably have a [[WP:NOR]] related problem.
Not at all. most people don't do much in the way of OR.
A side effect of NOR is that completely disinterested parties should be able to do a job of similar quality to our interested writers, although perhaps with a somewhat greater expenditure of energy.
Evidences suggest otherwise.
... and I don't think it's unreasonable to ask people to expend energy. We call our contributors volunteers for a reason. Are people vacationing at Disney land called 'volunteers'? :)
We do see evidence of folks working on subjects that are not primary interests to them... I saw it in the last danny contest, but I'm sure there are many other examples.
The Danny contest was won by the mililtry history guys.
I do not claim that it's trivial. Only that it's actionable. ... We don't really know what to expect. It's my thought that on many of the subjects that need work it will be fairly easy... if anyone cared enough to fight over the content of the article then the article probably wouldn't stink. If this turns out to be true, then our policy for paid writers could be to tell them to just walk away from any subject where community interest presents an obstacle to their efforts.
So we can't even be sure of getting what we paid for. Mercenry editors are of little use to us.