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

[David Gerard]

2008/5/23 SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com>:

> It's a feature of having lots of people edit that articles tend to
> lack flow. There are very few editors who actually read a section of
> an article before they edit it. People believe that a factoid is
> missing, so they stick it in, regardless of what it does to the
> structure of the paragraph. It means that every article needs someone
> on hand to be endlessly copyediting it, which is a thankless task,
> especially where it's a contentious topic, because then you're accused
> of POV pushing if you move their factoid to retain flow.


Oh yeah. I didn't say it'd be easy, even if you can write :-)


- d.