On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:55 PM, WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for reviving a thread from three weeks ago. But the idea > that we had degenerated into a newbie biting place where one could > "challenge a newbie to create an article on Wikipedia and have that > article exist for an entire week. Guaranteed, your article will be > marked for “speedy deletion” within about two minutes of its > creation." bugged me, so I thought I'd unscientifically test it. > > I made a suggestion at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/new_users#Lets_all_create_an_extra_account > > Nobody including myself knows how many articles have so far been > created as part of the test, and yes one has already been deleted > under the novel speedy deletion criteria of "the wikilinks did not > have the proper markup". > > But there are at least two other articles that have survived more than 24 > hours. > > Anyone else who is interested in following the test is welcome to > watch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment > > Two articles at least should be unveiled in the next few days. > > WereSpielChequers
I particularly enjoyed WilliKing's comment: > My bad...I sincerely apologize. If I knew about the "challenge", I would have > kept the article. It did have, though, words without proper wikilinks. > Willking1979 (talk) 02:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC) I sympathize with him entirely; if I had known about the cop around the corner, I wouldn't've casually shoved that woman off cliff. In my defense, though, she was ugly. -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
