[WikiEN-l] The story of an article

[altally]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Apoc 2400 <apoc2400 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > Yes, it's not that difficult to create an account and wait a few days is
> > it?
> >
> You are making the mistake of assuming newcomers think like "addicted"
> Wikipedians or persistent troublemakers. This user only ever made about 25
> edits and stayed just over a month, unless he or she got an account or
> switched IP.
>
> This goes in the same category as:
> "Anyone with good intentions can get through the 6757836 step New Article
> Wizard, so it's not too complicated"
> "It doesn't matter if someone gets wrongly blocked, because they can just
> request to be unblocked."
>

When I started, I created an account from the beginning. Why? Because it
wasn't hard to notice the big "Sign in/create account" link in the corner.
Newbies aren't all clueless idiots. You are making the mistake of assuming
newcomers all have no idea what they are doing.

--Majorly