[WikiEN-l] Googley comments

[Emily Monroe]

> I don't see this as a way to improve the article, only a way to  
> allow casual readers to make comments.

THANK YOU for the clarification!

Emily

On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:04 PM, wjhonson at aol.com wrote:

> 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
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> -----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
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>> I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what
>> sorts of things are OK for comments.
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> 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:
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>> In a message dated 9/3/2009 7:21:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>> bluecaliocean at me.com writes:
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>>> 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.>>
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>> 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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