At 2002-09-03 18:44 +0100, tarquin wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
When I sat down to write the article, though, I was seized with horrible writer's block. That's astounding, for a guy who does hardly anything but write 8 hours a day 5 days a week. If my collected email output were collected and published in book format, I hate to think of what it must weigh.
I know what you mean. What I like about Wikipedia is that I can quickly slap down the bones of an article, without feeling that I have to get it *right*. I can then leave it to simmer, and return to it a few weeks later, admire what others have added to it and mercilessly rewrite my earlier work. Run an article through a few cycles like that and you start to get good stuff. :-)
Yes, and that's the real strength of Wikipedia!
I added a paragraph to the article about surrealism (because I wrote something about it elsewhere where it could go to waste) but it wasn't in the tone of the article. From that I drifted into movies and noticed that genre and style weren't seperated. I tried to seperate that and explain it on the talk page. Someone reacted saying that what I wrote on the talk page should be put on the page itself.
My hope would then be that someone with more editorial skills then me and who would be less distracted by the moods of geniouses would work it into the article.
I think that this is the strength of Wikipedia whatever oldbies say.
(And by the way, I'm probably older than that premature-young-oldbie.)