[WikiEN-l] More slogans

[geni]

On 8/25/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/08/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/25/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > We're talking about Wikipedia, not Wikinews.
>
> > And yet:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=7_July_2005_London_bombings&oldid=18317302
>
>
> Your patent terse one-liner style fails to make it clear how this
> contradicts "last word on nothing, first word on everything", assuming
> that is indeed what you are applying. (Perhaps it's time to make the
> jump to two-liners ...)

Becuase if that article was the first word there would not have been a
BBC article to link to at that point. Wikipedia is not a publisher of
original thought. Thus a slogan that can be read as an aim to provide
second rate news reporting is ah less than ideal.

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geni