User:Keeper76/Write Right
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 | This page in a nutshell: Writers and righters are equally valuable to Wikipedia's success |
From Wiktionary:
Write v. To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.)
- Some editors write articles for Wikipedia
- See also: featured articles, good articles, Did you know, Article development
Right v. To correct, also to return to normal upright position (right the ship).
- Some editors right articles for Wikipedia
- See also: copy-editing, manual of style, gnoming, peer-reviewing, disambiguating, stub-sorting, category sorting...
Both are essential to the operation of Wikipedia, and should be considered equally valuable towards the success and credibility of the Project. Both skillsets make excellent administrators, and both make horrible ones, because neither skillset accurately correlates directly to administrative competence. Character, ONLY character, can determine whether an admin candidate will be a successful admin long term, to promote or deny a volunteer worker based on anything else is foolish.