On Nov 6, 2007 2:59 PM, Monahon, Peter B. Peter.Monahon@uspto.gov wrote:
Earlier: there is a big difference between "a necessarily imperfect
work in progress" and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_S._Patton&curid=42090&a... iff=169628093&oldid=169618698 (first diff on English WP RC when I loaded it) ... At least this instance of vandalism is probably not going to [do?] material harm to anyone..."
So, we agree about dispensing with spam and vandalism and off topic contributions. Now that we have that out of the way, perhaps we can agree to leave such irrelevant straw-men out of conversations about ... biting newbies.
That would be much easier if people would stop armwaving and SHOW SOME EXAMPLES.
Come on. If this newbie biting is so rampant, just provide some examples... and then we can talk about those.
I'm not claiming that it's not happening, but boilerplate messages have been implicated I've been looking at their use... and the only thing I've been able to find in a couple of minutes of looking is that we're spending too much time asking obviously malicious people to be nice.