David Gerard wrote: > I've occasionally over the years suggested on wikien-l that we prefill > article pages with an article template, e.g. > > ---O<---cut here---O<--- > First sentence explaining your '''article topic''' with the topic in bold. > > Second sentence introducing it more. Explain to the reader why this is > important enough to need an article. > > == Subheading == > > Some text explaining the subheading. Add more subheadings and text as needed. > > == References == > > What sources back up the information you've written above? Please list > them here. Be able to back up everything you've written. > > == External links == > > List here the one or two very best web links possible in the world on > this topic. > ---O<---cut here---O<--- > > Unfortunately, the idea's never gotten any traction, and discussion > has rapidly gone all bikeshed [1] on the precise content of the > hypothetical template and how this is horribly restrictive of > established editors and the Man's keeping them down, etc. > > A pity, as I think new en:wp contributors seeing the above when they > start an article would lead to a lot less articles being shot on > sight. > > > [1] http://bikeshed.org/ You may want to check out the page the English Wiktionary has for failed searches: <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Noexactmatch>. If you do a search for something like "xxxxx" that has no article (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=xxxxx&go=Go) and click on "Basic" (or whichever) you can see the preloaded article it gives you, e.g. <http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Template%3Anew_en_basic&editintro=Template%3Anew_en_noun_intro&title=xxxxx&create=Basic>. This is especially important on Wiktionary where the format is more important and inflexible than Wikipedia, and it's also more esoteric. I think English Wiktionary is not the only Wiktionary to do something like this.
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