On 5/21/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/21/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
Or you write well enough, include the substance, and let other editors
take
care of your style--it's a group effort, after all. I want to adopt all
of
the folks who stalk me to edit my contributions and take them to work
and
school with me for all my writing needs. Alas, they all seem to have
lives
outside of correcting my turgid prose on Wikipedia.
Yeah, this is what I do mostly (not stalk you, I mean copyediting). I don't refer to the MoS much (you get the hang of the "wikipedia style" pretty quickly), but when I do wonder about something it is a very handy reference. As I've said, I really like it and don't think there is an urgent need (or any need at all, really) to overhaul it.
--Oskar
I couldn't do a wiki date to save my life, so I simply use my edit summaries to request that someone format the date for me--I did try to look dates up in MoS once, even got some great help, but decided it was too much work, especially when total strangers who watch recent changes are willing to jump in and format my dates.
As all the folks doing my copyediting seem to have a handle on style issues, as nobody ever insults my style *after* my posse has made it beautiful.
KP