On 11 March 2012 01:51, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since the Foundation vetoed the EN wiki idea of not allowing newbies to > create articles until they'd been autoconfirmed, I'm surprised that it is > considering requiring them to have "a familiarity with policy" and "several > references". Yes you need that for a Good Article, but this is about new > articles at their very outset. Whatever happened to the idea of > crowdsourcing and being the encyclopedia that anyone can edit?
I think the idea is that they should have a familiarity with policy and several references if they want to create an article freestyle. Otherwise, they should use the wizard. I think people should have a basic understanding of some policies (NPOV, Verifiability and Notability, say) before creating articles, otherwise there is (as we see) a very high chance of them getting deleted. You probably don't need several references, though - just one should be enough to prevent an article being deleted straight away. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
