User talk:Tvtonightokc/Archives/2021/July

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Sammi Brie in topic Writing style


Nomination of State network for deletion

 
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Sammi Brie (she/her • tc) 03:57, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Writing style

I've noticed some of your recent contributions and also other work you've done on the encyclopedia, and I wanted to offer some constructive feedback.

While I like seeing citations in good numbers, I can't help but shake the feeling that your prose is too dense and sometimes misses the forest for the trees.

We are writing in a topic area that is full of jargon already (and which, from an encyclopedia point of view, has tended to be a bit behind other topics in its application of site-wide guidelines). Your prose makes it hard for non-topic editors to enjoy reading the page and makes it easy for them to get lost. There are too many uses of unencyclopedic sidebars like "unironically" and often too many brackets buried in parentheses.

I'm writing to suggest a lighter prose style that might work better, something I've tried to do with such pages as WCNC-TV and KTVK. The pages are lighter, more engaging reads that do not lose rigor or precision but are freed of excessive details and undue emphases on obscure points.

If you'd like pointers or have questions, I'm very happy to help. Sammi Brie (she/her • tc) 07:12, 20 July 2021 (UTC)