On 11/26/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)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.
--
geni