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

geni geniice at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 18:23:35 UTC 2009


2009/10/30 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/10/30 WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers at googlemail.com>:
>
>> 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".
>
>
> Yeah, any such article ahs to be done in good faith, not an attempt to
> catch people out. The test criterion is anonymity. Write as good an
> article as you would in your known identity.

Not a reasonable test since anything that heavy with markup is
unlikely to look anything like something created by a new user.


-- 
geni



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