User blog comment:AWikiObserver334/A Word to the Administrators/@comment-29923344-20140425185120/@comment-1978336-20140425190707

I think he's talking more about canon issues than anything else. However, the NCF tag is being used to flag simple bad writing more than ever before, I'd say. So your point is still valid.

Not everyone is a good writer and not everyone even has the capacity to be one, so the question is how far do we go before we decide that someone's writing is beyond help? How closely do we tutor them? We only have so much time and effort that we can spend helping someone, and the more users we need to help the less help we can give to each user individually. And some users will never improve to where they need to be in order to contribute here no matter how much help we give them, as for many people writing simply doesn't click for them.

As we discussed in our podcast, the best thing new users can do to get help with their writing is to hop on the IRC. There's usually someone there to speak to most times of the day, and we can provide tips, criticism much more easily there, or even walk someone through how to write a good article, something which simply isn't possible on the main site. It's a lot more personal and in many cases a lot more comfortable to talk about these things on the irk rather than on the wiki itself.