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

[David Goodman]

so far from being  disruptive, the  project is an attempt to
demonstrate the ongoing disruption being routinely carried out by
people deleting improvable articles. sometimes a few test cases are
the clearest way to show that, and the project seems to have made done
that very successfully. We now need to consider how to improve what we
do so the   discouragement of new authors decreases.

I remind everyone that what admins do  is open and can and should  be
audited. Though that was not the purpose of the project, it is
perfectly in order to check the  deletions of individual admins.  We
should expect at least the same knowledge of basic rules we look for
at an RfA.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually, it's the other way around. Deliberately writing a bad article that
>> should be deleted, but doesn't technically fit the CSD due to some loophole,
>> sounds like the definition of disruption to make a point. I'd have to see a
>> test case to say that for sure.
>
> The entire NEWT project is a "disruption to make a point" - and the
> point is well made: A good number of deletionists could do something
> better with their time.
>
> -Stevertigo
>
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