On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Ron Ritzman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Deleting newcomers' hard work is one of our big PR problems. Even if, >> after contemplation, we decide we were actually right to do so. >> >> When someone wanders into the sausage factory and the very first thing >> that happens is that they fall head-first into the meat grinder ... >> this is an *unfortunate* circumstance. Doesn't just happen to newbies. For the first time in years I started a new article quite some time ago. It immediately got a speedy delete tag *even though* I had placed an "in use" banner at the top (something a newbie would never think of). Now, the rationale given for listing it for deletion was that it was "rubbish". And it's true: it was rubbish! But the fact was I was editing it from the very earliest point of noting a phenomenon and trying to document it. I thought the "in use" banner and the fact that I would have edited it in the moments before the deletion banner popped up would have been enough to say "someone is working on this right now, so hold your horses". I now realise I should have started the article in my user space but, again, this is certainly not something a new user would think to do. I recall, during the Strategy process, a user of very long standing saying that a new article he created was similarly stomped on at birth. I can see it from the new page patroller's point of view, mind. It can't be any fun doing a shift on there at all. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
