Talk:Good quizbowl

What does "eschews spelling" mean? avoids spelling?--Zachary Yan (talk) 17:43, 17 March 2014 (PDT)

Yes. Alex Liu (talk) 18:08, 17 March 2014 (PDT)

... Like the question are spelled incorrectly?--Zachary Yan (talk) 18:19, 17 March 2014 (PDT)

nvm I get it.--Zachary Yan (talk) 18:22, 17 March 2014 (PDT)

"questions on excess general knowledge" sounds weird, but otherwise the current vision looks alright. The older vision was kinda redudant using both "distribution" and "excess".--Zachary Yan (talk) 19:05, 17 March 2014 (PDT)

I thought you were told to stop trying to write articles until you became literate in the English language? I congratulate you on (no doubt accidentally) rediscovering the obscure form "eschewal" in your attempt to "clarify" the meaning of an ordinary word, though. Matt Weiner (talk) 19:41, 17 March 2014 (PDT)

Whoops that was me. I think it's a safe assumption that someone who knows what "eschew" means can probably ascertain the definition of "eschewal." James Zhou (talk) 21:37, 17 March 2014 (PDT)

Style

I think that mentions of good quizbowl (and bad quizbowl) in articles should use quotation marks around them (.e. "good quizbowl", "bad quizbowl"). It's probably more of a concern for bad quizbowl, since the intended meaning there is quite different, but it's a small change that will hopeful help disambiguate the set of practices/standards listed in this article from "quizbowl that has the property of being good". I've gone through and changed all existing uses of the term (or at least all the links) to use quotations, so this just needs to be a "going forward"-type deal. - Kevin Wang (talk) 09:11, 6 January 2022 (CST)

I think that's okay, but it would be even better to avoid the terms entirely (other than explaining them). I started some discussion of that here, though I'm not sure it reached any fantastic conclusions. Sometimes "pyramidal quizbowl" is an appropriate one-for-one substitution, but not always (e.g., when discussing practices unrelated to question content, such as rules and tournament format). My latest practice has been to reword and try to use the phrase "best practices", which is still somewhat judgmental but I think less so, and at least it's a standard phrase. —Jonah (talk) 20:38, 6 January 2022 (CST)

Sure. If we reach any further consensus on how to refer to that we might want to put it in the Style Guide. -Kevin Wang (talk) 21:07, 6 January 2022 (CST)