On 17/08/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On a lighter note, I know exactly what you mean
about being able to
spot Wikipedia text a mile off. I find the best clues are the words
"neologism" and "portmanteau", I've never seen them used
anywhere
else, but one of them is in the first sentence of pretty much every
Wikipedia article.
Yeah, our first sentences are the easy bits. "PAGENAME is an
(adjective) noun, contextual-phrase other noun"; restate the topic in
a really simple way.
:
A '''Wikipedia article''' is an encyclopdic article written for
[[Wikipedia]]. Wikipedia articles are generally written in a distinctive
and recognizable style, which has often been described as
boring[1][2][3][4][5][6], although some articles are said to contain
"brilliant prose".{{fact}}
Contents
1 Introduction
3 History of Wikipedia articles
4 Writing a Wikipedia article
5 Criticism
5 Wikipedia articles in popular culture
...