[Foundation-l] User talk templates

[David Gerard]

On 22 March 2012 10:56, En Pine <deyntestiss at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Why would you not want to provide people guidance before they've made their first edit, and why not provide them some encouragement to edit in a welcome message?


Because in practice, new editors don't read them - they think the
messages are just boilerplate for tl;dr.

I urge you again to bother reading what's been posted to this list
over the past 24 hours.


- d.