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> This is a living document and we encourage contributions in the form of pull requests. Who is "we"? I understand your use of "we" to speak from the perspecti
by japhyr 6y ago
> This is a living document and we encourage contributions in the form of pull requests.
Who is "we"? I understand your use of "we" to speak from the perspective of us as a society through most of the article, but this makes it sound like there's more than one author.
- ryankemper 6y agos/we/I I chose to use "we" both because it fits with the semi-formal tone better, but more importantly because I want to give others a chance to open PRs if they choose to do so, so I was basically future-proofing for a possible scenario where I wasn't the only contributor.
- ryankemper 6y agoFWIW, I will probably circle back here and switch to "I", since I think it's probably worth it to avoid confusion.
- mchusma 6y agoI may submit a PR then it would become "we".
- ryankemper 6y agoThanks. I'm going to leave it as is. As another commentator has mentioned, use of the singular "we" is very common in academic writing anyway, not that I'm saying that this blog post of mine is "real" scientific research or anything
- DarthGhandi 6y agoThis is fairly common for many styles of writing even when it's clearly just one author. Considering he's open to pull requests it makes even more sense. https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2945/choice-of-personal-pronoun-in-single-author-papers https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2945/choice-of-...