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

Tue Apr 19 18:59:55 UTC 2005

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at 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