[Foundation-l] User talk templates

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 11:18:17 UTC 2012


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.




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