[Wikipedia-l] Simple English and English look too confusingly similar

[Tony Sidaway]

Erik Moeller said:
> I just read this blog entry from January:
> http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/04/academia_and_wikipedia.php
>
[...]
>
> If an expert can make that mistake, I'm sure many other people have,
> wondering why all the Wikipedia articles they looked at were written in
>  very juvenile prose and incomplete.
>
> I strongly recommend that we change the look and feel of the Simple
> English Wikipedia to avoid that confusion, perhaps going so far to add
> a  [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] to that effect. A somewhat different logo
> would  also help. The changes I can make without being a sysop are
> limited,  though, and Simple is not particularly active, so I thought
> I'd bring  this to the attention of the list first.
>
I don't think this is really a problem.  Experts make mistakes too. 
Somebody should inform that expert of his mistake so that he can correct
it.  His criticism of the standard of the entry on the Simple English
Wikipedia is valid.