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:::Keep in mind that (in my view at least) an encyclopaedia should provide '''easy, informative reading''' ''for a person who has never heard of the subject before.'' The goal is to make people want to browse through its pages. | :::Keep in mind that (in my view at least) an encyclopaedia should provide '''easy, informative reading''' ''for a person who has never heard of the subject before.'' The goal is to make people want to browse through its pages. | ||
:::[[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 21:59, 22 October 2010 (UTC) | :::[[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 21:59, 22 October 2010 (UTC) | ||
==Suggestions== | |||
We need to create at least a brief [[National Public Radio]] article, and move some of the things that are more NPR than Williams there. The two articles, of course, should cross-link. Remember that there is also some topical involvement from [[George Soros]]. | |||
This article might also link to [[Islamophobia]]. | |||
Paragraphs 2 through 4 of the lede should move under the first heading, and the official correspondence under a 2nd level subhead. The whole NPR-Williams-Fox issue is not new, and should be documented before the firing. I'd hardly call Williams a little-known figure, but I'd also call nationwide fame a little strong. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 22:34, 22 October 2010 (UTC) | |||
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Mary, I think it's a good plan of attack to put topical articles up. Remember to start with an encyclopaedic opening. See my first edit. 5 W's, (and an 'H'!) Aleta Curry 21:09, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks Aleta! I was starting to make the same edits you did and noticed you had started editing so I did not save the changes. I agree with your edits as that's how I would have written it. I was trying to make the article sound more like an encyclopedia rather than a news story. If I were to write it as a news story it would have been:
Juan Williams was fired from his National Public Radio job after comments he made during a Fox News television show...blah, blah, blah. Love your edits and thank you! Mary Ash 21:45, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
- Ooh - sorry! Didn't mean to cross-edit! Did you get ye olde 'edit conflict!' message? Irritating, but can't be helped.
- Looking at your 'newspaper copy' - yes, it's pithy, but do you see that that assumes the reader knows who he is in the first place? Also, think of a teenager in Calcutta reading your piece...what's Fox News? Should it be in brackets so they can read all about it?
- Keep in mind that (in my view at least) an encyclopaedia should provide easy, informative reading for a person who has never heard of the subject before. The goal is to make people want to browse through its pages.
- Aleta Curry 21:59, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Suggestions
We need to create at least a brief National Public Radio article, and move some of the things that are more NPR than Williams there. The two articles, of course, should cross-link. Remember that there is also some topical involvement from George Soros.
This article might also link to Islamophobia.
Paragraphs 2 through 4 of the lede should move under the first heading, and the official correspondence under a 2nd level subhead. The whole NPR-Williams-Fox issue is not new, and should be documented before the firing. I'd hardly call Williams a little-known figure, but I'd also call nationwide fame a little strong. Howard C. Berkowitz 22:34, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
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