[WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Create an article as a newbie challenge now paused

[WereSpielChequers]

If anyone was contemplating participating in [[Wikipedia:Newbie
treatment at CSD]], please don't create any more new articles under
undisclosed new accounts, whilst we discuss concerns that some users
have raised that the damage to the new page patrol process may
outweigh the benefits.

WereSpielChequers



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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:38:53 +1100
> From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Update on the
>        create  an article as a newbie challenge
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:55 AM, George Herbert
> <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to personally look at the articles and responses in more depth
>> before I comment more, but this has been exceptionally valuable
>> research.
>
> Yes, can you please post the usernames and the articles that were
> created? If some were speedied, do you have the original text?
> Obviously we shouldn't be having an "omg rampant speedyism" debate if
> the articles were actually speedyable...
>
> Steve
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