[WikiEN-l] Babel template en-5

[maru dubshinki]

On 4/25/06, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Preliminary: This posting is *NOT* meant to re-incite a discussion that
> has already taken place and is already over: namely, the debates about
> the deletion of [[Template:User en-5]] and its equivalents for other
> languages.
...
> In reality, most non-native English speakers I know speak and write
> English way better than an average native speaker. In reality, among all
> speakers (native or non-native) there are huge variations in the level
> of skill, ranging from "lolz asl?" to Pulitzer-prize winning prose. It
> is *that* which the Babel templates are trying to gauge, *not* whether
> someone is a native speaker or not.
>
> Timwi

Really? That's odd, because most of the non-native speakers I've met
on Wikipedia were noticeably worse than native speakers.

~maru