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

[Ryan Delaney]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:00 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
You might be misunderstanding what the objection is here. Nobody needs to be
reminded that use of sysop tools is subject to peer review.

-- causa sui