User talk:Danwills
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question from trifox
hi there, i am wondering if describing peoples from the "i" perspective is adequate for a wiki ? or ?
danwills' reply
Hey there trifox :D
I think you're referring to the grammatical and contextual problems that this wiki suffers from somewhat because it's mostly made up of posts cut-n-pasted from a mailing list?
We've got a lot of first-person language on the wiki because of that, which can be a bit confusing to read.
Ie a page might say "then I tweaked this layer" but on a wiki that should really read "then the layer was tweaked" or "then bob tweaked the layer". It's a subtle area and I suppose we should be careful because we're modifying peoples words. I have made spelling corrections and other grammar fixes, but I am not sure what policy we should adopt about this, what would you like to do? we should also ask Don what he wants to do about this.
I would be happy to try to fix things in this regard, it's a lot of work but if we stick at it we'll probably be able to get there in the end :D.
Can you post an example of exactly what you're talking about? then we can figure out the best way to fix it.
example
i this case i just refer to your special user page, you describe it in the "i" perspective like
"i like doing some kind of fractal..."
i think it would be more adequate for a wiki, and content we as authors provide as 'new' content, it would be more good like:
"Dan Wills most liked fractal type is ... he has also contributed many formulas .... and he contributes to the uf wiki..."
got it ?
Fair point
Yep I agree that the wiki page called Dan Wills, should be written in the third person. However the user page for User:Danwills is meant to have a more first-person twist to it.
I did initially make a redirect from Dan Wills to User:Danwills, so it does appear that I'm using the first person inappropriately. That is bad and I will fix it now.
cheers for the suggestion! :D
