On 11 March 2012 01:51, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Since the Foundation vetoed the EN wiki idea of not
allowing newbies to
create articles until they'd been autoconfirmed, I'm surprised that it is
considering requiring them to have "a familiarity with policy" and
"several
references". Yes you need that for a Good Article, but this is about new
articles at their very outset. Whatever happened to the idea of
crowdsourcing and being the encyclopedia that anyone can edit?
I think the idea is that they should have a familiarity with policy
and several references if they want to create an article freestyle.
Otherwise, they should use the wizard.
I think people should have a basic understanding of some policies
(NPOV, Verifiability and Notability, say) before creating articles,
otherwise there is (as we see) a very high chance of them getting
deleted. You probably don't need several references, though - just one
should be enough to prevent an article being deleted straight away.