[WikiEN-l] Slashdot article

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/22/2008 3:36:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
thomas.dalton at gmail.com writes:

However,  most of our articles don't say that. They say "Y [X]", which
isn't the same  thing.>>


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Sure, and in those cases where a situation is becoming fraught with  
controversy over sourcing, the appropriate thing to do in the case where we have  an 
article that says "Y [X]" would be to change it to something like "It's been  
reported by X that ""Y"" "
 
Most things don't reach that level of controversy and so people take  
shortcuts, which of course makes the article more readable anyhow, and is  generally 
the way writers write.  They only quote things likely to be of  high interest 
being extraordinary, bizarre, appropos or curious.
 
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