[WikiEN-l] Edit Wikipedia Week is coming. How not to bite the n00bs?

[Mark Wagner]

On 11/6/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/2007, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> > We have a general guideline about not templating the regulars. I'd
> > suggest that
> > that might be a good rule in many cases where the people aren't regulars.
> > Templates can come across as very impersonal abd BITEy.
>
>
> We shouldn't be templating ANYONE. It's a bureaucratic "go away."

I don't suppose you've got a natural-language processor I can use to
give OrphanBot the ability to customize messages and respond to
talkpage comments?

(and even without that, I suspect that OrphanBot is far more friendly
to newcomers than most newpages patrollers)

-- 
Mark
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