It would be nice to have a tool for long standing editors to clean up a newbies talk page for them, leave messages for the overeager templaters, and help them out / welcome them in untemolsted language.
Then a little ML could go a long way in guessing which newbies are in this situation and generating a queue for newbie-care. ~~~ đđđđ On Wed., Feb. 19, 2020, 4:35 p.m. Andy Mabbett, <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > I have just come across a case on en.Wikipedia where the daughter of > an article subject added details of his funeral (his death in 1984,w > as already recorded) and his view about an indent in his life. > > Her six sequential edits - her first and only contribution to > Wikipedia - totalled 1254 characters, and were conducted over the > space of 30 minutes. They were no the best quality, lacking sources, > but were benign, and exactly what one might expect an untutored novice > to do as a first change. > > As well as being reverted, she now has three templates on her talk > page; two warning her of a CoI, and sandwiching one notifying her of a > discussion about her on the COI noticeboard. These total 4094 > characters or 665 words. > > How do other projects deal with such cases? > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
