On 9/22/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
Fuzheado:
The only thing it will do is show how badly
Wikipedians are at writing
magazine feature articles. :)
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
This appeared to have been true, and Ive done my best to inject some life into it. ( WP:ITAAW )
There is currently some debate over the article's size -- Im now wondering if there was some naive assumption on the part of the writer that there would be a side by side of similar sized versions.
Here's a quick update on the process so far: - Folks not familiar with Esquire magazine tend to write in the wooden, straight encyclopedia style we're all used to. Much of the resulting effort has been to reinject life and punch into the article. - There has been back and forth as to what articles we use as exemplars: whimsical, serious, current events, etc. - Jimbo chimed in on the parts about his financial freedom, interest in constitutional law and Ayn Rand. He said how "ludicrous" those comments were. Good thing the part about gun politics was taken out before he saw _that_. :) - Too elaborate. Details about administrators, featured articles, vandal fighting techniques, Nupedia operations, etc. keep creeping in. This article is for a lifestyle magazine, not Linux Journal. - We should probably keep the article close to the original 709 word count. I would say no longer than 900 words. It has regularly climbed to above 1200, requiring major cutbacks.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)