How friendly are we to Newbies? Update on the create an article as a newbie challenge

[WereSpielChequers]

The idea is to test the speedy deletion process with articles that
shouldn't be speedy deleted.

Links to several of the articles in the process and their fates have
been posted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment

But at present it is skewed towards the ones tagged for deletion,
there are others as yet unpatrolled that won't be disclosed until they
have faced the people who patrol the back end of the unpatrolled
queue.

WereSpielChequers

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> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:38:53 +1100
> From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp@...>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Update on the
>        create  an article as a newbie challenge
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> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:55 AM, George Herbert
> <george.herbert@...> wrote:
>> I want to personally look at the articles and responses in more depth
>> before I comment more, but this has been exceptionally valuable
>> research.
>
> Yes, can you please post the usernames and the articles that were
> created? If some were speedied, do you have the original text?
> Obviously we shouldn't be having an "omg rampant speedyism" debate if
> the articles were actually speedyable...
>
> Steve
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[Steve Bennett-8]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers@...> wrote:
> The idea is to test the speedy deletion process with articles that
> shouldn't be speedy deleted.
>
> Links to several of the articles in the process and their fates have
> been posted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment

Hey, that's really cool. I've made my own lame newbie attempt to join
the experiment. It's hard to write a convincing newbie stub article
that you think deserves to exist, but could be dissed by a patroller
acting in a hurry.

Steve

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[David Goodman]

It's not hard to do. Mention the unspectacular factor that claims
notability in an obscure position in the middle without any details,
add some foolish spam about how good they are & how they will change
the world,  include an email address to contact for more information,
and omit references. For models, check CSD.


David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp@...> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM, WereSpielChequers
> <werespielchequers@...> wrote:
>> The idea is to test the speedy deletion process with articles that
>> shouldn't be speedy deleted.
>>
>> Links to several of the articles in the process and their fates have
>> been posted to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment
>
> Hey, that's really cool. I've made my own lame newbie attempt to join
> the experiment. It's hard to write a convincing newbie stub article
> that you think deserves to exist, but could be dissed by a patroller
> acting in a hurry.
>
> Steve
>
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