On 29/11/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
We should probably still kill a lot of unsourced edits. Such a preload template is already in use at AFC and it is routinely ignored, but better to try and convince some people to follow it. It didn't solve the problem, but it cut back on problem cases slightly.
Yeah. The nice thing about a preload template is that it can guide new editors without being a straightjacket on experienced ones - it's just text in the edit box, after all.
Something like (off the top of my head):
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is ... [one-sentence definition]. It is ...
==More detail==
[Put more detail about important aspects of {{PAGENAME}} here. Use ==section-name== around new sections.]
==References==
[List the sources you used in writing this article]
==External links==
[List the most important couple of external webpages on the subject.]
This shows people how to give us the useful content for a good stub article without having to know all about editing wikitext and lovely formatting.
wikitech-l - is it possible yet to do a preload when someone hits 'edit' on a red link? If so, what do we need for this to be switched on for en:wp? It is likely time for such a thing.
- d.