[WikiEN-l] 100, 000 FAs as an achievable goal with a plan (was Contest and quality)

Wed Sep 13 09:31:40 UTC 2006

On 13 Sep 2006, at 03:10, geni wrote:

> On 9/13/06, Carl Peterson <carlopeterson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What would be ideal is if we could establish a content-area (i.e.,
>> WikiProject) peer review as a prerequisite for the purposes of  
>> content (esp.
>> for technical articles) then have it go to a "Brilliant Prose  
>> Committee" of
>> qualified persons (e.g., people with actual degrees or a lot of  
>> experience)
>> to evaluate the writing style, the readibility, the grammar, etc.  
>> But that
>> borders on instruction creep and would be strongly opposed as it  
>> creates an
>> elite class distinction and would knock out all the lovely people  
>> who derive
>> meaning in life from firing torpedoes at FACs.
>>
>> Carl
>
> You have suggested a committee. Generaly that isn't a good sign.

It's easy to neutralise this suggestion:
suggest a committee to discuss whether to have a committee.