Charles worte:
I think
this case has said a lot about our community reaction to
newbies,
I'm
seriously considering starting a Save the Newbie campaign here.
--sannse
To be fair (though matters may have gone wrong
here) newbies also need
saving from well-intentioned advice to start their time on WP, not logged
in, adding comments on American political topics that are divisive and
concerning divisiveness. The deep end.
Yes, such advice to take things easy at first would be part of the policies
of the RSPCN (with it's US branch of SPCN of course). Those who slide
easily into the Wikipedia culture tend to be those who start by writing NPOV
articles about fluffy kittens rather than those jumping in to the more...
ummm... /active/ areas of the 'pedia.
--sannse
do we /have/ an article on [[Fluffy kitten]]s?