Talk:John Carpenter (game show contestant)

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There's a link to a video of when he wins, and it's labeled, "the video when he win." I love how some people can't talk English. I'm fixing it.-Babylon pride 23:26, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Just because you can speak and write English well doesn't mean people around the world should be the same. And just because people don't write English as well doesn't mean they should be discouraged from contributing in Wikipedia. --210.9.15.113 08:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Certainly not. But they'd be well advised to contribute to Wikipedias in a language they're fluent in. I'm sure French wikipedians would not appreciate it if I BabelFished a few paragraphs and posted them. Also, more often than not, broken English is the result of a native speaker being lazy, also something Wikipedia doesn't need. Much like you writing in grammatically incorrect English from an IP located in Australia, or the original commenter's wonderfully ironic "can't talk English". While the Wikipedia concept welcomes and even requires the participation of laymen, elementary command of the language being used on their part shouldn't be too much to ask. Unigolyn 10:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Different people, different points of view... to me, the only relevant criteria to know if someone should contribute to Wikipedia is whether his contributions globally improve the encyclopedia or not, and not what his level of English is. The person who found "the video when he win" made a nice improvement to the article, and we are better off than if he had not made it. Someone else, such as Babylon pride, then comes and corrects the grammar. It's the whole point of a collaborative encyclopedia, isn't it ? In this case, the linked video was broadcast on a French channel, so we would not have known about it on the English wikipedia except for the French speaker who made a grammatical mistake. We need this kind of people, even if their English is broken. Schutz 12:34, 2 September 2006 (UTC)