On 22/08/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
New articles are still important, as you've pointed out... But I've seen no evidence that new article creation belongs even on the top 100 task list for making our encyclopedia not suck.
True. OTOH, writing new articles is easy. OTOOH, it behooves those of us who find something we wanted to look up in Wikipedia isn't there and promptly write an article for it to write a *good* article. I try to. At least a clear description and a good reference. Something that will be *of use* to a reader who wants to know about the topic. (Last example created by me: [[lxrun]]).
I don't want to add something saying this to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Newarticletext unless we can sensibly remove something else (per the wisdom of [[m:instruction creep]]. Ideas to talk page thereof please.
- d.