[WikiEN-l] Good writers always welcome (was A tidy way of handling "popular culture" references)
Mark Gallagher
m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au
Fri Aug 25 10:29:46 UTC 2006
G'day David,
> On 24/08/06, Erik Moeller <eloquence at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>"Anyone can edit" is a poor, reductionist and inaccurate slogan with
>>negative connotations. I don't think that the idea behind "good
>>authors are always welcome" can be expressed in a way that doesn't
>>have the problems that I have enumerated; as long as you're referring
>>to _people_, rather than their contributions, it will always come
>>across as condescending and judgmental.
>
> "Good contributions always welcome" ?
>
> (the wording is clunky)
Good *edits* are always welcome?
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Mark Gallagher
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