Conservapedia talk:Writing assignment
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Is this a school?
Writing assignments? That sounds like what my teachers expected me to do during my school days. If I never did them years ago, I wonder what will make me complete assignments now, in my ripe old age.
My question is whether these assignments are compulsory. If a sysop gives an assignment to an editor and the editor asks him to MYOB and refuses the assigment (after all this is a place where there are MYOB blocks), will the editor be punished?--Effbeeayi 09:28, 10 April 2008 (EDT)
- Probably--that's pretty much what Ed did to me. --Gulik5 12:41, 10 April 2008 (EDT)
Not Wise
I don't think it is wise to use this as a policy, inevitably everyone here contributes as a volunteer, not as a paid writer, and as such it's hardly fair to force them to write an article. I know there are age old arguments about Red Cross volunteers and what not, and whilst CP editors must understand that like them they are expected to obey some orders, there have to be limits placed, just as we would not expect a volunteer to be ordered to stay overnight and count money.
It may be wise to use rules to tell people what they cannot do, rather than to tell them what they must do. That way boundaries are set, and people are much less likely to leave because they feel that they are being bullied or forced to do something they do not want to do. Just remember, writers build encyclopedias, we need every one we can get.
Maybe this could be adapted into something like wikiprojects, where people can volunteer to write articles on a particular topic, rather than having it imposed onto them. TheGySom 09:52, 10 April 2008 (EDT)
- Absolutely, right now my personal project is to keep clicking the random button and ensure that the subject of each article is defined at the start. Perhaps we could have a Conservaproject:Definition first or something like that, where interested editors could sign up. We could organise sweeps of categories in order to ensure that all the articles inside are correct in this regard, and maybe try to provide some general feedback on the number of articles lacking an initial definition in order to see how much work needs to be done. What do you think? TheGySom 07:13, 11 April 2008 (EDT)
Wow, we're getting paid for this now?
No? Well, until we ARE, 'issuing assignments' is not going to go over very well with those of us who edit the site by wandering randomly until we find something interesting. This place isn't a job, it isn't a Holy Calling (not for me, at least), it's a hobby. --Gulik5 12:40, 10 April 2008 (EDT)
