[WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Create an article as a newbie challenge now paused

Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 20:38:28 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > It seems that, under the guise of this project, some people are
> > intentionally writing very low quality articles and then rules-lawyering
> > over the specific speedy deletion category names:
>
> I'd argue that tagging something for speedy deletion when it doesn't
> actually
> fit the criteria is itself a form of rules lawyering.
>
>
Actually, it's the other way around. Deliberately writing a bad article that
should be deleted, but doesn't technically fit the CSD due to some loophole,
sounds like the definition of disruption to make a point. I'd have to see a
test case to say that for sure.

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