User talk:Rahaeli

I blank my talk page from time to time because I think long talk pages are ugly. If I've blanked it, I've read it.

Thank you
Hi there!

I came here to mention google scholar link for Fatih Erden. Thank you!

Multiple thanks
Hullo!

I came here to thank you for cleaning up the external link section in Tube map. Thank you!

Then I looked at your user page, and wanted to thank you again for Dreamwidth, and for working to remove ableist language from Wikipedia.

—me_and 10:51, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

MIMO-OFDM article review
Thanks for the quick review and encouraging words. I agree its inherently technical and it would be nice to make it understandable to more readers. I'm a relatively new article contributor and I wonder if tutorials have been considered for topics like wireless technology. I'm sure it's always best to make the articles as understandable as possible, but for some topics it might be easier to go to one place first rather than dozens of internal links. Thanks again! Claudeb (talk) 14:07, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * You're welcome!

The question of 'what kind of audience are we writing for' for wikipedia has always been a thorny one. My view is a mix: on the one hand, it's best to keep articles accessible to the layperson: the goal of the encyclopedia is to, well, be an encyclopedia, and encyclopedias are intended to impart an overview of a subject and leave the super-detailed nitty-gritty stuff for specialist references. On the other hand, part of the reason that traditional encyclopedias were more of an overview and less of an in-depth treatment was traditionally because of space limitations, and Wikipedia doesn't run out of electrons. On the other other hand, there really is a lot of benefit to keeping articles here as accessible to the layperson as possible, because I know a lot of people's eyes glaze over at the sight of a lot of technical detail.

Ultimately I subscribe to the "impart overview up front, let people research the details in more depth if they're interested" school of thought, which is why I tagged the article as overly technical, but mostly I did the tagging to get a few more eyeballs on the article to see if others agree with me!

Still, I didn't want to just tag it without giving you a thumbs up for the work you put in to it. High five. :) --rahaeli (talk) 15:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing!
Thanks Rahaeli for reviewing Einar Jolin! The article would not be in such good shape if it were not for the patient help and encouragement from Philg88, and Anomalocaris who set me on the right track here at EngWiki. - W.carter (talk) 14:37, 6 June 2014 (UTC)


 * You're very welcome! I enjoyed reviewing it a lot -- it's always great to see a new article that's so thoroughly cited, well presented, and skillfully written, especially since English is a second language for you. (I never would have known that!) You deserve to be very proud of it. --rahaeli (talk) 15:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

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