Forum:This is getting annoying...

I know we have a general manual of style, and I know that despite it not everyone follows it and other structural rules. I know there are a lot of little "mistakes" of sorts (such as not writing in-universe) and some wiggle room concerning overall use of tenses. I also acknowledge that some people just aren't as good as others when it comes to writing, and as a group project, everyone can contribute to help make everything the best it can be.

However, there seems to be a trend of extremely sloppy writing lately, especially in terms of event and story summaries - and frankly, I'm getting tired of it. It's one thing to add to or tweak or reword parts of an article on occasion. It's another thing entirely when the write-up is such a mess that it essentially has to be rewritten from scratch; instead of two (or more) people contributing to a whole, you have one person producing work that can't be used and just has to be redone by someone else anyway. It's a waste of time and effort. I've already brought this up on the talk page for #168, but I think everyone needs to be more aware of what they're doing here.

Here are a handful of examples of recent story summaries:

''"At Freedom HQ, Sonic is trying to find Tommy Turtle, with Tails and Rotor tell him that Tommy can't be far, Tails said he got first dibs when Tommy "helped" with his project and Rotor said that he washed the "dirty" petri dishes, which destroyed the Nanite research Rotor was working on."

"Matching blows with the hedgehog who resorted to burrow the powerhouse, a minor setback as the king was quick to tear himself free."

"Forcing the monkey down on the ground, intending to finish his old nemesis he was interrupted before the final blow once again by Sonic. Who gave the bull an offer, to destroy the siphon instead of the shield, claiming that they were "Cutting Their Losses" by letting the dome keep the pollution safely contained."

"Stomping off to rest and meditate a few seconds after the runt was finished begging for his life."

Unless you're eight years old or learning English as a second language or aomething, I should not have to tell you that '''these are incomplete sentences full of misused words, tenses, punctuation and capitalization, not to mention poor structure and grammar. To be blunt, as is, they make no bloody sense.''' It's one thing to have a small mistake or typo here and there; these, however, are entire articles that look as though someone removed several crucial words and then put the rest in a blender.

A sentence is supposed to present a complete idea. Tenses are supposed to match. You should write with the assumption that the reader doesn't know everything and thus it should clearly and concisely be explained within your writing.

I really don't want to have to go after specific people here, but unless some make more of an effort I don't see much in the way of options. If you notice your write-ups have been changed, take note of the changes and try to learn from them. CrazyLea 09:49, December 12, 2009 (UTC)