Mentoring

Page created by Taric25 07:04, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

TRS Article

So. Here are my feelings and thoughts on the TRS article, and I'll try to generalize them to all articles. Often articles have editors that watch over them, and make many contributions to them. The TRS article was one of those for me. I'll admit that I'm protective of the page, but I try to be flexible and patient. I'm also sort of protective of the Miami Valley School article as well as the IHOP (restaurant) article. When I'm a new editor to a page, I try to look back and see what the history has been before I commit my edits, especially if I'm making major edits. Perhaps the article has gone there and people made a good decision to change it from going in the direction I'm taking with it.

Specifically regarding adding all of the images to the TRS, I'm quite sure that many of them are not fair use, which is why I removed them. I do think its good to have illustrative images in the vein of Illustration-telebraille.gif, but given that that image is an illustration I think the fair use rationale in item seven is a little bit of a stretch. Wikipedia in my mind is a combined collection of the information from human knowledge, including that on the web. We don't have to copy the content exactly, but we can and should use the information presented via it. (In fact copyright law and style considerations should discourage us from copying exactly.) Also from a style perspective there are four different styles of images, communicating similar information. (e.g. the TTY-Voice, VCO-Voice, Deafblind-to-voice, and Captel images are all in different styles.) IMHO it makes the article look cobbled together and disjointed. '

Also, in my mind the application policies should fit the situation. The guys at Enron had a huge ethics manual, but they didn't implement them properly. For instance on the TRS article I disagree with JoeSmack's removal of links. Perhaps we should have a few less, but removing all of them is throwing around policy for no really helpful ends. I'd support adding these back in, but it needs to be done along with comments and discussion.

My point here is policy is to help guide us towards what is right, not to dictate what is right.

I'm going to wander off for the night, so I'll catch up with you sometime tomorrow.. —Cliffb 07:44, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all that information. I suppose you're right that we could have diargrams, rather than photos, for the different types of communication. As far as the removal of links, we could just incorporate them into the article as companies that provide the relay service. Taric25 15:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]