[WikiEN-l] Re: Potential Wikipedian growing pains

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>From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>

>Nowadays I pretty much tell new contributors "just write a few
>paragraphs and INCLUDE REFERENCES and don't worry about the fancy
>markup for now. Just INCLUDE THE REFERENCES and people will know it's
>a real article about a real thing."

That's good. Something like that needs to be in Wikipedia:Your first article.