Borrowing a phrase (was Re: [WikiEN-l] Quasi-vanity and quasi-advertising)

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 09:07:09 UTC 2005


Jim Redmond wrote:
>David Gerard wrote:

>>Hagiographic fan writing

>oh, I am SO using that phrase in an edit summary.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Gerard/music is something I
wrote a while ago about my attempts to come up with a way to write
music articles that didn't suck.

Let me reiterate: hagiographic writing is a *style* problem - an
editorial matter. I really don't see how throwing it to VFD will help
in any way at all. "Delete, you like the subject too much"? WTF?


- d.



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