Leading question

It is possible that some of you, at one time or another, may have disagreed with the Guardian's carefully-considered leader columns. These articles - called editorials in the US - appear without a byline, and are set out as the opinion of the paper as a whole. Clearly, not every individual in an organisation will agree with a given article - but it is leaders that give a paper its voice.

To create a conversation, we encourage readers to send in comments for our letters page and to contact our readers' editor, Ian Mayes, with corrections or complaints. You can also post to our talkboards, contact writers directly, and post comments to the newsblog.

But we have never asked you, our valued readers, to actually write the leaders yourselves.

That's exactly what Andres Martinez, the editorial page editor at the LA Times, has proposed for his paper's website. He's called it the wikitorial, a feature that will allow readers to rewrite LA Times editorials.