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

[David Gerard]

2009/11/16 Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com>:

> No argument there. What's important about this case is that (as it has been
> explained to me, anyway) someone was deliberately writing a bad article with
> the express intention of being a pain in the ass. That's gaming the system
> in a disruptive way to make some kind of political point, and we generally
> frown on that for obvious reasons.


Yes, that's just being silly. A test is to write an article as if
you're not a known experienced editor, but still try to do a
reasonable job on it.


- d.