On May 2, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Sean Barrett wrote:
We're not hunting down newbies and forcing them to participate in deletion discussions.
Yes, we are, every time we nominate one of their articles.
No, we're not. They're the ones who choose to keep revisiting the page they made (or, if they're quick learners, put it on their watchlist) and they're the ones who go out of their way to protect the page as if they owned it. Lots of people make an edit (or an article) and then leave it to the rest of us to handle. Some people choose to stay and stand guard. That's their choice--we're not forcing them to do that.