On 8/15/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
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Laura Scudder wrote:
Except then it wouldn't get edited mercilessly by other Wikipedians. The students will probably work a bit harder if they know it's going into the main article namespace where it will be subjected to many eyes and editors than if it's in their user namespace.
Besides, we don't make other newbies' first articles go up for approval.
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Maybe we should... just as page moving is disabled until you have a certain number of edits, so should new page creation. It would probably save VFD a whole lot of trouble.
No!No!No! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Totally daft idea!
The first edit I ever made was creation of a new page. And it was a crappy stub. And had I not been allowed to make it I may never have become hooked.
Theresa
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