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Knowledge (XXG)'s FA process as a classroom for myself. I can learn about a subject I like, and benefit Knowledge (XXG) at the same time. Forcing myself to take the articles to FA means that I have to spend enough time on the material that I genuinely learn it. Writing the article is like writing a paper for a professor; FAC is rather like getting a grade. When the paper gets an A, I start work on another paper, and keep learning.
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don't get upset at FAC when someone posts a silly oppose, or asks for MOSDASH fixes, or an infobox I don't think should be there, is that to me that would be like getting mad with the professor who tells you to change something in a paper you've written. I just try to have faith that the FAC process will work, and comply with (almost) all the requests I get at FAC. Usually I find it really does make the article better.
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I try to avoid getting involved with non-content work, though I haven't always been able to stick to that. I also have started doing more reviewing of others work, which seems only fair, as many people have reviewed my articles. I've also written some FAs on topics I like, just for pleasure. Other
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Writing the article to FA standards required some research and made me think about the material critically, in order to organize it. I discovered I knew more about Asser than about any of the other Anglo-Saxon topics I'd read about. Since then, I've been working on other Anglo-Saxon topics with the
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I've been sad to see people who I admire get stressed and leave. I have seen people advise stressed editors to focus solely on writing content, as content-writers get less stressed, and I think that's good advice. FAC does seem to stress editors, though, so I'll add one more comment. The reason I
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A year ago I knew almost nothing about Anglo-Saxon history. I'd read two good introductory books, but I'd retained so little information that I was very unsatisfied. I enjoy reading non-fiction, but I found it frustrating that reading the books was such an inefficient way of making me better
70:, and other similar processes, but after a while I realized that there was an infinite amount of work to do there, and without some goal I would simply burn out. I still admire the people who do that work, but I don't have the motivation. I would rather spend my time writing content.
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