> I don't see this as a way to improve the article, only a way to > allow casual readers to make comments.
THANK YOU for the clarification! Emily On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:04 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > No that was someone's idea, but not mine. > I like having the "Make a Comment" button at the bottom of each > article, as this would mimic what readers are used to seeing at other > sites. > I don't that this would create a seperate section on the Talk page > however, as I think this would clutter the Talk page with a lot of > casual comments. > When you read the comments on say a YouTube video, you get a lot of > one-liners and people talking back and forth and so on. > I don't see this as a way to improve the article, only a way to allow > casual readers to make comments. > It seems like just that possibly more-friendly approach might bring > people into the project as editors as well. > I'm not sure it would, it's a trial balloon. > > Will > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Emily Monroe <bluecalioc...@me.com> > To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 11:20 am > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments > > > > > >> I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what >> sorts of things are OK for comments. > > I thought we were talking about how to make the talk page more > accessible... > > Emily > On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:19 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > >> In a message dated 9/3/2009 7:21:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >> bluecalioc...@me.com writes: >> >> >>> Yeah, but see, the thing is, you don't "own" the blog. The person >>> writing it does (well, technically, the blog hosting service does). >>> They have the right to not have a comment show up. We could use the >>> same argument on Wikipedia.>> >> >> --------------- >> What? That Wikipedia puts a "comment on this article" and someone >> says "I >> love this person" and "we" or at least someone decides that fan mail >> is not >> something we want ? >> >> I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what >> sorts >> of things are OK for comments. >> >> Will >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l