Editing help

[kass]

So I started a page for RaceFail '09 today. The whole story is so sprawling that it's a bit intimidating for any one person to try to chronicle, but that's where I'm hoping many people together will be able to make relatively easy work of it. :-)

Anyway. If this is a subject in which you have any interest, please do add bits and pieces. Or feel free to comment on this post with thoughts or questions. My theory is that it's always easier to edit an existing page than to write a new one from scratch -- and that no one person should have to try to write this whole thing -- but if different people chime in with quotes and links and so forth, the page will grow itself.

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I had time to add a bit to the page.

[facetofcathy]

Cut and Paste from the talk page for RaceFail '09:

I added the big five posts (as I see it) from the central story of Racefail '09 to this page. I put them in in-line citation style. I believe that the story flows better that way, and that readers can more easily read original sources. If this page gets long, which it should to tell the full story, I don't want readers not reading original sources because they are tired of popping down to the footnotes to click a link. I used (sometimes long) quotes from these sources to let people's words speak for them. I am not comfortable at all paraphrasing or filtering the words of others regarding this issue.

Please, this sort of writing is not my strong suit, fix the grammar/style if it is required.

Also, I was thinking of including a link to the profile page for Elizabeth Bear's LJ. In this discussion we have people, like her, who openly link their legal name to their journal user name and we have people who do not. If we make a page for E. Bear, which we likely should do, that information can go there, so I left it out for now.

Note for anyone who has written about this or collected links: deepad has moved the publicly available versions of her posts to DW.

Re: I had time to add a bit to the page.

[kass]

Thank you for doing this! Seeing those quotes on the page somehow made the whole sprawling thing less intimidating, and I have been ducking over there and adding stuff when I have time.

Re: I had time to add a bit to the page.

[facetofcathy]

I saw the way you started to formulate structure and it is looking good.

I should post around here and LJ and try to drum up interest in people helping.

I wonder if the linkspam comm here on DW would be willing to host a begging post asking for help documenting this issue and Mammoth fail, or at least link to this post.

[anenko]

How about the Race Fail bingo card?

[kass]

Ooh, that's a great idea -- absolutely, that should be linked somewhere in there. Do you have a link to it?

[anenko]

I found one through Google. I'm sure there were a few other versions, too (possibly posted to deadbrowalking, although I could be thinking of the Avatar Casting Bingo Card).

[facetofcathy]

I added a reference to http://vito-excalibur.livejournal.com/213437.html

a post that links to some bingo card examples, so that link is now on the page, and illustrates the idea at the same time.