[WikiEN-l] Article Landing Pages - functional prototype to test and comment on

[Thomas Dalton]

On 11 March 2012 01:51, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since the Foundation vetoed the EN wiki idea of not allowing newbies to
> create articles until they'd been autoconfirmed, I'm surprised that it is
> considering requiring them to have "a familiarity with policy" and "several
> references". Yes you need that for a Good Article, but this is about new
> articles at their very outset. Whatever happened to the idea of
> crowdsourcing and being the encyclopedia that anyone can edit?

I think the idea is that they should have a familiarity with policy
and several references if they want to create an article freestyle.
Otherwise, they should use the wizard.

I think people should have a basic understanding of some policies
(NPOV, Verifiability and Notability, say) before creating articles,
otherwise there is (as we see) a very high chance of them getting
deleted. You probably don't need several references, though - just one
should be enough to prevent an article being deleted straight away.