[WikiEN-l] Newbies "stumbling" across VfD

[Daniel P. B. Smith]

> But we aren't, and I suspect more than one person was incredibly
> confused. Think of all the pages that link to VfD, and how many
> newbies stumble across it; all the policies that mention it.

I don't know about that.

I suspect that very FEW newbies stumble across it. I am trying to  
remember how long I was editing Wikipedia before I ran into VfD or  
even knew that pages got deleted. I believe it was several months.

I mean, it really takes a lot of... something... to create an  
encyclopedia page about yourself in the first place. And it takes a  
lot more of that to do it when it says right above the editing box  
that you shouldn't.

The self-promoters, the original researches, and the POV warriors  
"stumble" across VfD. Good-faith contributors with even a faint idea  
of what an "encyclopedia" can retain their innocence for quite a while.

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