[WikiEN-l] Googley comments

[wjhonson at aol.com]

No that was someone's idea, but not mine.
I like having the "Make a Comment" button at the bottom of each 
article, as this would mimic what readers are used to seeing at other 
sites.
I don't that this would create a seperate section on the Talk page 
however, as I think this would clutter the Talk page with a lot of 
casual comments.
When you read the comments on say a YouTube video, you get a lot of 
one-liners and people talking back and forth and so on.
I don't see this as a way to improve the article, only a way to allow 
casual readers to make comments.
It seems like just that possibly more-friendly approach might bring 
people into the project as editors as well.
I'm not sure it would, it's a trial balloon.

Will





-----Original Message-----
From: Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at me.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 11:20 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments





> I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what
> sorts of things are OK for comments.

I thought we were talking about how to make the talk page more
accessible...

Emily
On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:19 PM, WJhonson at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/3/2009 7:21:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> bluecaliocean at me.com writes:
>
>
>> Yeah, but see, the thing is, you don't "own" the blog. The person
>> writing it does (well, technically, the blog hosting service does).
>> They have the right to not have a comment show up. We could use the
>> same argument on Wikipedia.>>
>
> ---------------
> What?  That Wikipedia puts a "comment on this article" and someone
> says "I
> love this person" and "we" or at least someone decides that fan mail
> is not
> something we want ?
>
> I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what
> sorts
> of things are OK for comments.
>
> Will
>
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