If anyone was contemplating participating in [[Wikipedia:Newbie treatment at CSD]], please don't create any more new articles under undisclosed new accounts, whilst we discuss concerns that some users have raised that the damage to the new page patrol process may outweigh the benefits.
WereSpielChequers
Message: 6 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:38:53 +1100 From: Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Update on the create an article as a newbie challenge To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: b8ceeef70910272238p654f1ebdsfe94b15ad6a6fe8b@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:55 AM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I want to personally look at the articles and responses in more depth before I comment more, but this has been exceptionally valuable research.
Yes, can you please post the usernames and the articles that were created? If some were speedied, do you have the original text? Obviously we shouldn't be having an "omg rampant speedyism" debate if the articles were actually speedyable...
Steve