[WikiEN-l] What to do about our writing quality?

[Relata Refero]

Frankly, I don't think we should fix the "problem" that the post sees. We
reflect the world that surrounds us, and academic writing is a lot stodgier
than it was in the 1950s. Frankly, FAs waste enough time worrying about
style, and nowhere near enough time on sourcing. We shouldn't encourage
that.

RR

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:35 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> The evolved Wikipedia house style is a grey stodgy morass. Some bits
> are better written than others, but it's getting noted:
>
>
> http://www.edexcellence.net/flypaper/index.php/2008/05/wikipedia-enabling-the-dumbest-generation/#comment-606
>
> (that's a blog post quoting a book that isn't online)
>
> How to fix this scalably?
>
>
> - d.
>
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