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

[Ray Saintonge]

SlimVirgin wrote:
> It's not just the most controversial this applies to. It's any
> article, project page, or section thereof that anyone's watching
> closely. One problem we had after we'd written the final draft of ATT
> as a summary of V and NOR is that some people believed the meaning of
> a few crucial sentences had been changed. They hadn't -- they had just
> been written differently -- but the change in writing led some people
> to feel sure there must have been a change in meaning too, so they
> opposed the proposal. This happens a lot with material that people
> care about. They guard it fiercely, even if that means preserving bad
> grammar, no flow, and words used incorrectly.
>   

Policy pages are quite another matter.  Changes of a single word in a 
law or policy can have a profound effect because it is very rare when 
two words will have identical connotations.

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