[WikiEN-l] I'll take care of it (was: Intolerance directed towards poor English)

Tue Apr 19 18:46:12 UTC 2005

> > 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.

I'm willing to clean up any "poor English" articles you send my way.
Just paste a link at [[user talk:Ed Poor]]. (The other day, I criticized
a Korean elder in my church for his broken English, and I need to do
penance!)

Ed Poor