Responding to MZMcBride's question, "And a bit larger than this, what's an
acceptable cost for keeping new editors around? For example, deleting a new
user's article is probably the easiest way to discourage him or her, but is
the alternative (allowing their spammy page to sit around for a while) an
acceptable cost for the potential benefit?"
First, I think that the new visual editor will help.
Second, I think that the NOTFACEBOOK policy is a bit counterproductive in
its current form. Wikipedia is a collaborative work and I've seen the
NOTFACEBOOK policy pushed in the faces of people who engage in personal
conversation on their talk pages. We want people to develop collaborative
relationships here, right? I don't mean to suggest that people should turn
userpages entirely into personal blogs, but I also think that the statement
"Wikipedians have their own user pages, but they may be used only to present
information relevant to working on the encyclopedia" is overkill and
discourages people from forming friendly collaborative relationships. I
think that we should move in the opposite direction, permitting and possibly
even encouraging people to be social (within reasonable limits) while
working collaboratively on our collective project of Wikipedia.
Pine
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