It seems to me that he pigeonholed your references as external links instead. I guess he
isn't familiar with the fact that new editors often don't label their citations to
our style/standard.
- Eli
------Original Message------
From: Steve Bennett
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Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Update on the createan article as
a newbie challenge
Sent: Nov 1, 2009 11:52
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:21 AM, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
I'm hoping that we won't have too many
"trick" articles in this
process, or articles that should be deleted but not by CSD (the
criteria are "write an article that doesn't meet the deletion
criteria".
Hmm, as for my own experimental article (which I loaded with a few
newbie errors, but nothing too over the top), all that has happened
was an established user came along and deleted two of the sources, and
renamed a (deliberately misnamed) section heading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batu_Niah&action=history
I can't really fathom his thinking. Sure, they weren't high quality
sources, but they were the sources of the information nonetheless...
Steve
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