[Foundation-l] User talk templates

[Cynthia Ashley-Nelson]

I've read the responses over the past 24 hours and have followed the
suggestions made by Pine. I appreciate her proactive manner with addressing
issues and lack that she sees. While some may not agree with the automatic
welcome template idea, at least she's actively working toward and
presenting solutions to problems that she identifies. I don't personally
agree with using or implementing automatic welcome templates, but she
certainly doesn't deserve the harshness offered in response to her
suggestion.

Instead of shooting her down, maybe we can use this as a brainstorming tool
to generate a better solution? Any constructive ideas?

Cindy

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:18 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Best regards,

Cindy Ashley-Nelson
"Yes. *Her again.*"
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