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@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@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@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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l