I also stumbled across it pretty fast, and I put a page up for vfd a few days after I joined up...
On 8/1/05, Kat Walsh mindspillage@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/1/05, Daniel P. B. Smith dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
But we aren't, and I suspect more than one person was incredibly confused. Think of all the pages that link to VfD, and how many newbies stumble across it; all the policies that mention it.
I don't know about that.
I suspect that very FEW newbies stumble across it. I am trying to remember how long I was editing Wikipedia before I ran into VfD or even knew that pages got deleted. I believe it was several months.
Really? I found it within days -- and, no, nothing I've written has been listed! (Not even my composercruft -- but now I'll be quiet before someone goes through my contribs with a fine-tooth comb. ;-)) My first VfD edit is from 6 days after registering -- no, not voting, but listing a page. Curiosity corrupted the Kat, I guess; I wonder how anyone can *not* stumble across it.
The self-promoters, the original researches, and the POV warriors "stumble" across VfD. Good-faith contributors with even a faint idea of what an "encyclopedia" can retain their innocence for quite a while.
No doubt. But I suspect a lot of the newbies who *are* good-faith contributors don't make their newbiedom known...
(No comments from the peanut gallery about how I lost my innocence early, thank you!)
-Kat
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