> > Apologies for my ignorance, but could someone explain what a pre-filled
> > template is? Is it just having default text in the create new article
>page?
> > I must have missed the beginning of the discussion. Thanks!
>
>Basically, just now, you click "Create this arricle", and you get a
>blank screen.
>
>The pre-filling idea is that when you click "Create this article", you
>get a screen with skeleton headings, a bit of boilerplate text...
>basically, as though someone had edited the page before you and added
>some boilerplate. It gives a framework to write around rather than
>just the terrifying whiteness.
>
>--
>- Andrew Gray
> andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
Thanks for the reply! This might have been mentioned already, but if we do
this, won't we get tons of newly created articles with just the text
template?
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> > Thanks for the reply! This might have been mentioned already, but if we
>do
> > this, won't we get tons of newly created articles with just the text
> > template?
>
>These will not be difficult to spot and delete :-). A handy cheat is
>to ensure the text template contains [[Category:Unchecked
>articles]]... or, for that matter, that it's automatically appended to
>the page afterwards.
>
I like this idea! True, it would be easy to spot articles like this, but
what if someone is just clicking "save" first before actually writing
something? The category should help - if anything slips through RC patrol,
then articles created with just that text will be listed at the category.
Ingenious. :-)
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Well, bugger! I can only hope we had a Dublin reader with a tape recorder ...
- d.
Not at the moment David -
Sorry about that
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- thanks, David.
Apologies for my ignorance, but could someone explain what a pre-filled
template is? Is it just having default text in the create new article page?
I must have missed the beginning of the discussion. Thanks!
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I think my main objection to this is the current title:
"Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons deserve special sensitivity".
The very title pushes Sympathetic Point Of View, whatever the guideline
content.
I've suggested on the talk page:
1. Change title to [[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons]]
2. Start with "Be very hardarsed with references in living persons'
bios" and go from there.
That is: the title should be what the guideline *concerns*. And the
start should be the guideline itself in a sentence.
Then we can work from there. NPOV, NOR, V. Past examples of why we need
this. Don't fall into Sympathetic Point Of View. Etc.
Does this sound workable?
- d.
For those who asked, this is the website from which the legal summaries
were obtained.
http://www.perkinscoie.com/casedigest/icd_results.cfm?keyword1=defamatio
n&topic=Defamation
Van Buskirk v. New York Times
Loutchansky v. The Times Newspapers Limited
Sabbato v. Hardy
Schneider v. Amazon.com Inc
I inadvertantly cut off the source information when I pasted in the
summaries in my post. My mistake. Apologies. So thanks and credit go
to Perkins Coie, LLP, Attoneys at Law.
In most instances the useful case law summaries from the law firm's
website trace back to original source documents and analyses.
Cberlet
Matt Brown wrote:
>Do you think prefilled templates should be switched on by default for
>established users? (those existing prior to implementing this feature,
>that is).
Depends if someone codes it that way ;-) As long as there's an off
switch, the screaming should die down reasonably quickly.
- d.
Matt Brown wrote:
>On 12/20/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've done a rewrite of the proposed guideline at
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/temp
>> It's rewritten very much in the style of a quickly usable guideline -
>> you should be able to get the whole idea from the intro, the rest is
>> details.
>I like it. I'll see if I can improve.
Make it shorter! Omit needless words!
I'm still hacking away at it, so make your edits small to avoid a conflict ;-)
- d.