| ▲ | KolmogorovComp 11 hours ago |
| I wish they also spent on the reverse: automatic rephrasing of the (many) obscure and very poorly worded and/or with no neutral tone whatsoever. And I say that as a general Wikipedia fan. |
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| ▲ | philipwhiuk 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| WP:BOLD and start your own project to do it. |
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| ▲ | vintermann 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or be extra bold, and have an AI bot handle the forum politics associated with being allowed to make nontrivial changes. | | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Great way to get banned :) I've made a bunch of nontrivial changes (+- 1000s of characters), none of them seems to have been reverted, never asked for permission, I just went ahead and did it. Maybe the topics I care about are so non-controversial no one actually seen it? |
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| ▲ | tonymet 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| there are many copy editing projects that do this. If you mean the left leaning tone / bias, that will be a bit more spicy. But general grammar, tone, ambiguity , superlatives – that’s the goal of copy editing. I copy edit typesetting , for example. |
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| ▲ | KolmogorovComp 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > If you mean the left leaning tone / bias, that will be a bit more spicy. But general grammar, tone, ambiguity , superlatives – that’s the goal of copy editing No, no I mainly mean non-neutral phrasing and/or too personal. Especially for people’s articles. (“And they released that greeeat album! But unfortunately the critics did not understand them… Booh!) |
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| ▲ | alt227 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I would hate it so much if all the articles on Wikipedia were suddenly all rewritten to have a smiliar tone and style. Its beauty is its diversity. |
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