[WikiEN-l] Good writers always welcome (was A tidy way of handling "popular culture" references) (first post)

[Martin Peeks]

I feel that "Good writers always welcome" may deter some people who perhaps
would feel that their contributions wouldn't be good enough - or worse still
make people think that there is a selection process for editors.  It sounds
like a job advertisement, or an advert for membership to an exclusive club,
where all that you say and do will be closely scrutinised - now if that's
what Wikipedia has become, then it's a very sad thing - which we definitely
should not be telling prospective editors - we need to encourage them to
make that first contrib. - and give them helpful feedback where they make
mistakes - not discourage them at the first hurdle.


-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org]
On Behalf Of Gregory Maxwell
Sent: 24 August 2006 17:41
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Good writers always welcome (was A tidy way of
handling "popular culture" references)

On 8/24/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
> Feel free to edit:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eloquence/Slogans
> or to post more ideas and I'll collect them there.

I don't know about anyone else, but my interest in this thread is greatly
diminished by your apparent effort to step in and take credit
for it.   If you as so supportive of this idea why was your an initial
post a dismissive reference to an older post of yours?

In any case, I think the discussion was working just fine prior to you
stepping it and directing people.
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