[WikiEN-l] Edit Wikipedia Week is coming. How not to bite the n00bs?

[Slowking Man]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 11:48 -0500, Monahon, Peter B. wrote:
> 	Since admins CAN delete and ban, they think their job is to look
> for people to delete and ban.  Why not remove delete and ban features
> and be done with all this carping about abusive deleting and banning,
> and the damage done to Wikipedians one and all.
> 

> 	So long as it's not spam or vandalism, everything's good.  And
> crappy pages are good starter pages for people to learn NPOV and so on.

I'll go start that article on myself, then. Also, I hate to beg the
question, but if no one is able to block, how does one stop users from
spamming and vandalizing?
-- 
Slowking Man <slowkingman at gmail.com>
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