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 * I know I must be an important editor,
 * they gave me my own secretary!
 * I know I must be an important editor,
 * they gave me my own secretary!



What should be your Article score?
According to the Wikipedia Survey overview, UnU-Merit Collaborative Creativity Group (March 2010), p. 7: the largest percentage of readers in the study group (37.25%) have a secondary education. The next largest group (25.23%) has a tertiary-undergraduate education, the third largest group (17.24%) has tertiary-Masters educational level and the fourth group (12.08%) has a primary education level only. Those with PhDs comprised only 2.26% while a group identified as "other" comprised the remaining 5.93%.

This means that 49.33% of readers have a high school or less educational level while 44.73% are identified as having a college education of from 1-8 years. As numerous readability studies have shown, the latter group can easily read at the target 8th-9th grade reading level as can most of the former group. As a result, a Flesch–Kincaid readability score of from 60-70 (8th-9th grade level) is the ideal for English Wikipedia articles in general. Certainly the most technical articles on Wikipedia would of necessity be written at a more difficult level with a correspondingly lower expected readership due to subject matter. But the vast majority of articles should ideally be written so as to score 60-70 on the Flesch–Kincaid scale.

http://www.readabilityofwikipedia.com/score

http://www.wikipediasurvey.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf

See also:

http://www.readabilityofwikipedia.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Make_technical_articles_understandable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Readability

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readability_test

In the public domain.

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 * 'To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes
 * 'To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes
 * 'To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes

the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and

abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
 * -- Thomas Jefferson

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure,

the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,

its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.."


 * -- Winston Churchill

'"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."


 * --British historian, Lord Acton (1834-1902)



"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
 * Do not allow evil to triumph. Do not do sit by and do nothing. Stand up ..." '
 * -- Edmund Burke

'"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
 * 'but it is most important that you do it"'
 * --Mahatma Gandhi

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"Who knows himself a braggart,

Let him fear this, for it will come to pass

that every braggart shall be found an ass."