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

[Amory Meltzer]

Sort of like getting annoyed with a police officer for giving you a
warning for speeding.  No harm done to anyone, just don't speed next
time.

Pun intended.

~A



On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:35, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> It seems that, under the guise of this project, some people are
>> intentionally writing very low quality articles and then rules-lawyering
>> over the specific speedy deletion category names:
>
> I'd argue that tagging something for speedy deletion when it doesn't actually
> fit the criteria is itself a form of rules lawyering.
>
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