On 8/30/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds good. But fergoshsakes just put the info in a
table. Worst
thing about the town rambot articles is that they're pretty crappy
prose but it never gets edited, ever; second is that the demographic
information came from a table and should be presented as a table, not
as crappy prose.
Yeah. I bet over time the crappy prose of all these town articles will
slowly be edited in different directions, becoming different, equally
crappy, prose.
I was tempted to edit one once, then realised how many times I'd have
to repeat my work. Eek.
And since we're having a whinge, the other problem with an article
like that is you think it's actually fairly complete. You'd think that
3-4 paragraphs of text would be a decent amount for a small town.
Whereas it covers the demographics, and that's it - no history, no
geography, no "the construction of a Walmart caused uproar in 2005".
Steve