Deathphoenix wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
> When the page for creating a new article comes up,
would it be
> useful to include an article skeleton? Something like the
> following:
> Is this a useful idea? Do new article patrollers think it will help?
That sounds like a great idea. Since the
"well-meaning awful" often
comes from people who might not know where to look for such templates,
maybe it would be a good idea to provide a link in the "Wikipedia does
not yet have an article with this exact name" template, to the edit
page, or maybe provide a button that inserts that template (similar to
the buttons that help you insert bolded text, italicised text,
signatures, and so on).
If they don't know how to format an article, they wouldn't know what
a button meant, though ...
The only downside I can see is the possibility for function creep, and
idiots using this inappropriately as a hammer to use on others.
- d.