[CBW_Exec] Basic Writing on Wikipedia

[Shannon Carter]

Hi, all--

Hope your summer is excellent! 

Just wanted to share that BW is on Wikipedia now, which you may already know. Perhaps one of the EB wrote it! Yay! Hannah has been suggesting this for some time, and I was so glad to see it!

It's at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_writing

Only thing is this: IT IS ABOUT TO BE REMOVED. OR MAY BE REMOVED. 

See--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Basic_writing#Synthesis

REVISIONS NECESSARY, IT APPEARS. TOO ACADEMIC. Not yet within the genre of "encyclopedia." 

I'd hate to see this happen. Anyone able to take this on? 

Here's what they need to happen (from url above)--
This is obviously an essay prepared as if for some professional publication. It shows the typical patter of focus on a few specific topics, rather than encyclopedic coverage: it deals with the work of some selective figures, rather than the field as a whole ,citing almost entirely from their writings. I presume it was copied directly from something published elsewhere, but even if it was written directly for Wikipedia, it is not encyclopedic. Almost the entire text was contributed by two editors who have contributed nothing else, and two ips, both geolocating to the same network in the Western US.

The following needs to be done:

   1. a considerable part of the treatment of the key authors needs to be moved to the articles about them individually, if not already present there.
   2. A range of secondary and tertiary sources needs to be consulted
   3. all major theoretical and practical strands in the subject need to be at least mentioned
   4. a slightly wider range of external websites with resources on the subject needs to be listed.

If nobody responds here, as is likely, I'll probably stubbify it or --if I have a chance -- rewrite it. DGG ( talk ) 09:33, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
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