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

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 10:39:10 UTC 2006


On 25/08/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
> 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?

"Improvements are..."?

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