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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. | 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?--[[User:Effbeeayi|Effbeeayi]] 09:28, 10 April 2008 (EDT) | 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?--[[User:Effbeeayi|Effbeeayi]] 09:28, 10 April 2008 (EDT) | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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. [[User:TheGySom|TheGySom]] 09:52, 10 April 2008 (EDT) | ||
Revision as of 13:52, April 10, 2008
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)
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)
