Re: [WikiEN-l] The story of an article

2010-01-03 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Apoc 2400 apoc2...@gmail.com wrote: Fascinating! I note how the article Celilo Falls was created a brought up to four long paragraphs by User:67.168.209.23. Today IPs are not allowed to create articles and some want to limit it to accounts that are four days

Re: [WikiEN-l] The story of an article

2010-01-03 Thread Charles Matthews
Steve Bennett wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Apoc 2400 apoc2...@gmail.com wrote: Fascinating! I note how the article Celilo Falls was created a brought up to four long paragraphs by User:67.168.209.23. Today IPs are not allowed to create articles and some want to limit it to

Re: [WikiEN-l] The story of an article

2010-01-03 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Autoconfirmed status of accounts affects ability to move pages, but not ability to create articles. And upload images and edit semi-protected (of course). ___

Re: [WikiEN-l] The story of an article

2010-01-03 Thread altally
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Apoc 2400 apoc2...@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

Re: [WikiEN-l] The story of an article

2010-01-03 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:51 AM, altally altal...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Apoc 2400 apoc2...@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

Re: [WikiEN-l] The story of an article

2010-01-03 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:51 AM, altally altal...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Apoc 2400 apoc2...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[WikiEN-l] On never visiting a website twice, was Re: The story of an article

2010-01-03 Thread Charles Matthews
Gregory Maxwell wrote: I do know with absolute certainty that if some admin had blocked me in error early in my editing my response would have been to forget about the site and not attempt to edit it again for many years, if ever. This seems to be a big Web issue (no, I don't mean that some

Re: [WikiEN-l] On never visiting a website twice, was Re: The story of an article

2010-01-03 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Gregory Maxwell wrote: I do know with absolute certainty that if some admin had blocked me in error early in my editing my response would have been to forget about the site and not attempt to edit it again

Re: [WikiEN-l] The story of an article

2010-01-03 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:51 AM, altally altal...@googlemail.com wrote: 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