So there I was, minding my own business (as usual) when I came across an eHow instructional article. The article itself was rather strange and specific: How to Draw Zodiac Constellations.
_This writer passed somebody's screening process. Demand Studios (content distributor for eHow and other channels) also hires copy editors, who presumably passed somebody's screening process and then checked the work of the writer. And yet... The instructions were a bit odd. Basically: look at someone else's representation of the constellation. Draw the big stars first, then the smaller stars. Connect the dots. I have a hard time reconciling how these instructions are useful, or how they are appreciably different than instructions for drawing any constellation. _The drill-down for this article is Home >> Toys & Games >> Magic, Mystery & Fortune Telling >> Aries >> How to Draw Zodiac Constellations. There has to be a better classification for this! If I were starting from the Home location, there's no way I would follow this path to figure out how to draw Zodiac Constellations. Here are a few that I would try first: Home >> Arts & Entertainment >> Art Drawing >> Drawing Home >> Arts & Entertainment >> Art Drawing >> Pencil Drawing Home >> Arts & Entertainment >> Art Drawing >> Step by Step Drawing Home >> Arts & Entertainment >> Art Drawing >> Draw to Scale Home >> Arts & Entertainment >> Art Drawing >> Draw Anything Home >> Arts & Entertainment >> Art Drawing >> Draw Illustrations Home >> Arts & Entertainment >> Art Drawing >> Drawing Directions Home >> Arts & Entertainment >> Draw Shapes & Objects >> Draw Stars Home >> Arts & Entertainment >> Draw Shapes & Objects >> Draw Stuff Home >> Hobbies & Science >> Earth & Space Science >> Constellations Home >> Hobbies & Science >> Earth & Space Science >> Find Stars Home >> Hobbies & Science >> Earth & Space Science >> Night Sky Home >> Hobbies & Science >> Earth & Space Science >> About Astronomy That means the Toys & Games route would be at minimum my 14th try, but I'm guessing I'd never actually get there. I hope they have a better search function than categorization function. While looking through those categories, I found all manner of mis-categorized articles. All of those drawing subcategories should probably have been in "Arts & Crafts" rather than in "Arts & Entertainment," but that aside, when you finally get down to the articles in that first listing, >> Art Drawing >> Drawing, you'll find (almost at the top of the page): Identify Income Sources You Can Draw From in Retirement Can I Draw Both SSD & SSI? What Is a Sales Draw? How to Increase Your Band's Draw How to Fix the Draw in a Fireplace None of which are even obliquely related to Art Drawing. So, I'm thinking I might apply to work for Demand Studios, since I'm already cited as an expert, and clearly I have some skills they need.
Emily
2/22/2012 12:23:20 am
Yeah eHow clearly needs some help... in how to make a clearly understood database of information that's actually useful. That's just all kinds of sad.
Emily
2/22/2012 12:23:59 am
But yay for you for being cited! lol :D Comments are closed.
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