On 22 March 2012 10:56, En Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Why would you not want to provide people guidance
before they've made their first edit, and why not provide them some encouragement to
edit in a welcome message?
Because in practice, new editors don't read them - they think the
messages are just boilerplate for tl;dr.
I urge you again to bother reading what's been posted to this list
over the past 24 hours.
- d.