Talk:Viva Piñata (TV series)

message: The article is clear, informative, and very well written. Putting it into dreary standard encyclopedia-speak would not confer upon it any virtues it currently lacks, and would damage some virtues it already has. I think it would be an embarrassment for Wikipedia to insist on deliberately rewriting it to make it worse.
It's a mistake to imagine that the tone most people associate with encyclopedias is somehow required, or especially virtuous, or inherent to the form. It's just a tone that an editor working for a commercial encyclopedia-compilation project can impose upon thousands of entries of uneven quality, written by freelancers who may or may not be talented, disciplined, or familiar with the form. When the process is finished, none of the entries read terribly well, but the very good and very bad ones no longer stand out from all the rest, and they all sound like the revealed word from on high.
It's a commercial fraud. It's a literary convention. It's not a requirement of the form.
This is Wikipedia. It doesn't have to be sold to suspicious parents buying an encyclopedia they have no intention of reading, but rather intend for their children to read and thus become educated; which is why they're reassured by that dreary, turgid tone that sounds like the revealed word from on high: that, by god, is what an encyclopedia is supposed to sound like.
This is Wikipedia. It's a new thing in the world. Surely we're free to let it be good? --(unsigned Anonymous comment) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.225.217.252 (talk • contribs) 23:48, November 13, 2006
:Encyclopedias are for gathering information, not recreational reading.  This article needs spelling and grammar cleanups and factual reporting not creative writing. Soy Keymaster 13:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're correct but whatever tone is used, it's still badly written and needs cleanup. --treelo talk 18:21, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anonymous plea 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Viva Pinata logo.jpg

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