Todd Allen wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
SonOfYoungwood@aol.com wrote:
Newcomers especially need a place to go to understand that creating articles on their favorite mecha are non-notable unless they can provide significant out-of-universe information. WAF then provides details on out-of-universe sources as well as writing from an out-of-universe perspective. The key is to unite the two concepts of notability and writing about fiction.
Taking away a notability guideline would be seen to newbies as "anything in-universe is fair game".
Sounds as though this is all inspired by newbiephobia.
"Let's teach the newbies how to do things" is not newbiephobia.
That requires making the dangerous assumption that we already know how. It's a condescending attitude that makes no allowance for the possibility that a newbie might have good ideas.
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