[WikiEN-l] Newbies who don't act like newbies

[Andrew Gray]

On 02/12/2007, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ever since Usenet was started in the late 70s, old timers lamented
> that newbies didn't [[RTFM]], didn't read FAQs, and made the same old
> mistakes over and over again and that experienced users were answering
> the same questions over and over again. Oh how nice it would be if
> newbies would step back and learn how things worked before diving in.
> (or as we like to call it "being bold")
>
> So when did this trend of suspecting editors who don't have a history
> of "newbie mistakes" of being potential troublemakers start? I can
> think of several good faith explanations for this...

(...)

My second or third edit - certainly the same evening I started! - was
to AFD an article (or VFD, as it was then). It wasn't any of those
reasons - just a realisation that this ought to be deleted, and a
willingness to spend half an hour reading up on how to do it.

Don't rule out competence!

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk