On 4/10/06, Ral315 en.ral315@gmail.com wrote:
It's certainly technically possible. The problem I can see is that newbies will be turned off by the rigid structure of it (really, if they're going to make a three-sentence stub, do you think they'll bother to cite their sources, even if we request it?). I'd much rather teach newbies bit-by-bit, rather than give them a bunch of information that will annoy them.
I was thinking that by putting everything in comments, the structure isn't too rigid - they can basically ignore it if they want. And at least by putting in helpful comments like bolding the name of the article, they don't feel overwhelmed by the emptiness of the editing box.
A specific problem as well, to requesting categories, is that they'll add nonexistant categories, and, possibly even worse, click the red links and create the categories, thus creating more work for new page patrollers.
The wording can probably help them on that one, by telling them to find a category at a particular page.
Generally I'm unsure on the idea, though I think it's a decent proposal and could have positive results as well.
I'm unsure too, but I'd like to hear whether there are strong reasons for or against.
Steve