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Tony Sidaway wrote: <snip>
RC patrol needs guidance. This is the sharp end, not only in the fight to keep the wiki healthy, but in recruiting the new editors who will take our place when we move on to other things. We must expend thought on coming up with guidelines, or etiquette, for greeting new editors. Seat-of-pants methods have perhaps outlived their usefulness.
*steps up* Hello, I've done RC patrol, Shortpages patrol and (sometimes) Newpages and Newusers patrol. I'm also a member of the welcoming committee. One of the first things I do when I log on each day is to check my watchlist and welcome any logged-in users who've edited one of my watched articles. Sometimes I have to revert newbie tests, sometimes I have to put up with bad writing, but on the whole it's not too bad. You get the chance to be the first interaction that people have with someone who's been around a while, and hopefully they read some of the things that you suggest to them.
Once in a while, you have to reach for the LART, but it's better to educate and inform them before they've gone completely bonkers and teach them the value of the encyclopedia instead of waiting until they go off the rails on us, isn't it?
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