[WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Update on the create an article as a newbie challenge

[Steve Bennett]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:21 AM, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm hoping that we won't have too many "trick" articles in this
> process, or articles that should be deleted but not by CSD (the
> criteria are "write an article that doesn't meet the deletion
> criteria".

Hmm, as for my own experimental article (which I loaded with a few
newbie errors, but nothing too over the top), all that has happened
was an established user came along and deleted two of the sources, and
renamed a (deliberately misnamed) section heading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batu_Niah&action=history

I can't really fathom his thinking. Sure, they weren't high quality
sources, but they were the sources of the information nonetheless...

Steve