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 Sender: wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org To: English Wikipedia ReplyTo: English Wikipedia 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@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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