[WikiEN-l] Newbies "stumbling" across VfD

Tue Aug 2 00:03:56 UTC 2005

I also stumbled across it pretty fast, and I put a page up for vfd a
few days after I joined up...

On 8/1/05, Kat Walsh <mindspillage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Daniel P. B. Smith <dpbsmith at verizon.net> wrote:
> > > But we aren't, and I suspect more than one person was incredibly
> > > confused. Think of all the pages that link to VfD, and how many
> > > newbies stumble across it; all the policies that mention it.
> >
> > I don't know about that.
> >
> > I suspect that very FEW newbies stumble across it. I am trying to
> > remember how long I was editing Wikipedia before I ran into VfD or
> > even knew that pages got deleted. I believe it was several months.
> 
> Really? I found it within days -- and, no, nothing I've written has
> been listed!  (Not even my composercruft -- but now I'll be quiet
> before someone goes  through my contribs with a fine-tooth comb. ;-))
> My first VfD edit is from 6 days after registering -- no, not voting,
> but listing a page. Curiosity corrupted the Kat, I guess; I wonder how
> anyone can *not* stumble across it.
> 
> > The self-promoters, the original researches, and the POV warriors
> > "stumble" across VfD. Good-faith contributors with even a faint idea
> > of what an "encyclopedia" can retain their innocence for quite a while.
> 
> No doubt. But I suspect a lot of the newbies who *are* good-faith
> contributors don't make their newbiedom known...
> 
> (No comments from the peanut gallery about how I lost my innocence
> early, thank you!)
> 
> -Kat
> 
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