I think most of us on this list treat newbies fairly well. Now what about the people that showed up a few months ago, never contributed much, and spend their time biting newbies?
Let's say I register a new account right now. I go to new page patrol and start indiscriminately deletion-tagging any article by an inexperienced user. If they ask me about it, I reply with an impersonal but perfectly polite note referring them to WP:N, WP:GNG, WP:OR and WP:CIV while ignoring anything they say. For how long could I do this before I get blocked? How many could I scare away? A question for the admins here: When you come across an article wrongly tagged for speedy deletinon or prod, do you check up on the user who tagged it? What do you do if their deletion tagging is no more accurate than picking new articles at random? This discussion is about biting newbies in general, but I focused on deletion for personal reasons. I know the rules well, but I have had to fight deletions too. Asahi Kasei, one of largest chemical companies in Japan was tagged for deletion at least twice. When I am working on an article I often discover related subject lacking articles, so I create quick stubs for reference and later expansion. Very often they get tagged for deletion. They are on perfectly notable subject, so I can save the articles, but I would rather spend my time working on the main article. The issues we discuss in this thread go deep, but here is one change that would help a lot: * Articles should not be tagged for deletion two minutes after creation for not asserting notability. Yes there is {{Hangon}} but how would a newcomer know about that, and why should they? Of course an article created a minute ago is being actively worked on. If it's not time critical (attack pages, copyvios) no tagging should happen the first hour. If this is technically difficult then NPP should be modified. /Apoc2400 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l