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Old Aug 31 2008, 3:41 PM
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I'll admit, coming from a partial Wikipedia background I thought it strange to have such informal tone and signed/claimed articles on a wiki, which is by its very nature of a community effort ("everyone can edit!"). It would definitely help to point this out more explicitly, I think.

I know I'm late to the party, but if it has not been made may I suggest something to the effect of,

"This article is a personal essay [or other work] written by a member of Young Composers. It represents the author's own thoughts, ideas and opinions, and does not necessarily intend to be objective or written in a neutral tone and style."

Brackets are optional, you could also go with "personal essay, treatise, tutorial, or other work" to mirror the category page.

Personally, for the category page, I'd reword the text to clarify that the works are personal (which opposes objectivity) and not split the tone/style and subjectivity into two sentences — it feels like you're putting too much importance and too many words on both aspects, when they're only like sub-headings of "this category = not articles proper" to exemplify this statement. Yes, I know I'm nitpicking.
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