Quoting Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>om>:
Instead we probably need so say things like
"Don't assume that people
have any clue what they are doing wrong. New users are often lost and
confused. Our policy pages amount to megabytes of text. Taking a
moment to be kind and helpful will pay off over time. Vandalism can
wait a moment." ... and being able to provide *good* example of what
to do and what not to do would be very helpful.
Agreed. One thing to do (and I don't have an example off the top of my
head) is
to to mark for speedy deletion things without leaving a note on the talk page
of the person explaining why it has been marked for speedy deletion.
This comes
across as very impersonal. Additioally, if the person is a new user,
they should
first use a welcome template and then mention the speedy deletion. It might
make sense to make some welcome-speedy templates for this purpose since the
standard welcome template combined with a standard speedy template is very
obvious a pair of form letters which can come across as biting by its
impersonal nature.