----- Original Message -----
From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 7:46 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] I'll take care of it (was: Intolerance directed
towardspoor English)
Would a simple
explanation
on the talk page and a regular call to editors to clean up
the user's bad English in his contributions be enough? If
it's cleaned up, no one can complain about it.
It is hard to ring-fence the 'problem'. New articles like
[[Yen block]] and
[[yuan of Manchuria]] are being spun out all the time.
I can quite see why these cause puzzlement. If you don't
know the dialect
('poses' = 'possess' = 'have') it looks weird. But if people
used CleanUp
as intended it would be better.
Ed Poor wrote
I'm willing to clean up any "poor
English" articles you send my way.
OK Ed - [[Manshukoku Koku KK]] is fresh in.
Charles