[WikiEN-l] Re: Taking your eyes off the ball

[Worldtraveller]

Ouch!  Do you mean astronomy is boring, or my writing about astronomy?  I
do try to write articles that are interesting for people who might only
have a passing interest in astronomy but it's easy for a scientist to
forget what's interesting to people not in the field.  That's partly why I
sought peer review for Herbig-Haro object, because I was half afraid I was
going to spend lots of time on something no-one would be interested in. 
Astrocruft, if you like.  Please tell me if I'm heading that way!

The general point is that for many featured articles, only one person
might be interested in writing about a subject, but its appeal should be
broad based if it really represents the best of Wikipedia.  I'm not
particularly fussed about architects in colonial New Zealand, for example,
but Giano's articles on Benjamin Mountfort etc are interesting enough to
keep me reading right through.

WT

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Norton [mailto:wxprojects at comcast.net]
Sent: 03 October 2005 11:32 AM
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Taking your eyes off the ball

I would argue that featured articles that, say, Worldtraveller, writes
(mostly dealing with advanced astronomy stuff)  are about as
interesting as watching paint dry - but they are obviously GOOD
articles - and that's the point. The whole "it's only interesting to
the author" argument is nonsense because its such a relative thing.

Thanks,
Ryan