[WikiEN-l] Readers First

[Chris Lüer]

At 02:31 PM 7/29/2005, Jon wrote:

>Now look at the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome It 
>tells me nothing. Not what one is, not why it's important. To me 
>(and I guess to anyone else who is unfamiliar with what a chromosome 
>really is) it is meaningless.

Agreed, the article is in sore need of an introduction. It starts out 
with a technical definition, that's never a good idea. Too many 
writers still buy into the mathematical textbook way of structuring 
things based on their formal logical structure. But that doesn't work 
for an encyclopedia where people jump around between articles.