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

[Ryan Delaney]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Ryan Delaney wrote:
> > 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.
>
> But CSD *isn't for deleting everything that should be deleted*.  So the
> fact that the article doesn't fit CSD but should be deleted anyway isn't
> a loophole.  Plenty of things which should be deleted don't fit CSD.
>
>
No argument there. What's important about this case is that (as it has been
explained to me, anyway) someone was deliberately writing a bad article with
the express intention of being a pain in the ass. That's gaming the system
in a disruptive way to make some kind of political point, and we generally
frown on that for obvious reasons.

- causa sui