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

[Mark Nilrad]

"As he makes very clear to Starbuck, his first mate, Captain Ahab envisions in Moby-Dick the visible form of a malicious Fate which governs man thoughtlessly..."
"a crazed captain whose one thought is the capture of a ferocious monster that had maimed him..."
"Ahab’s monomania is seen then in his determination to view the White Whale as the symbol of all the evil of the universe."

If this was put in the Moby-Dick article, it would definitely be reverted immediately, with the edit summary reading something like: "No personal opinions, please".

Perhaps the article should be approaching this from the opposite angle -- the other works need to get their prose in order.

Noble Story

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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