[WikiEN-l] Preloading template in new articles

[Ray Saintonge]

Omegatron wrote:

>On 1/24/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>2) A casual editor who comes upon a mistake or a redlink is going to
>>fix it from their personal knowledge, not references.
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>This was, in fact, the original intended process for writing articles, no?
>With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow?  That's the whole concept behind
>the wiki/open source thing that the project is based on.  References were an
>afterthought, as indicated by our horrible kludgy support for them.
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>The whole concept behind Be Bold is to add information that you know, and
>not worry about referencing it; references will be added when needed.
>References are obviously a great thing, and should be added whenever
>possible, but should content really be removed just because it's not
>referenced?
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>At the very least, we shouldn't expect newcomers to figure out citation
>templates and Cite.php.  Just figure out a way to encourage first-time
>editors to include some type of reference, in whatever form they can manage.
>
I'm heartened to hear that someone remembers what it's all about.  The 
need for immediate references came about because of the Seigenthaler 
incident, which quite rightly forced us to pay attention in potentially 
libellous situations.

Naturally it bred a whole crop of overreactors who really don't 
understand how an article grows.

Ec