[WikiEN-l] Welcoming Peter C. Wayner and...

Wed Aug 17 00:08:15 UTC 2005

You know, the ultimate way to save VFD trouble is to just disable
editing altogether! Can I get an amen?

FF

On 8/15/05, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Laura Scudder wrote:
> > Except then it wouldn't get edited mercilessly by other Wikipedians.
> > The students will probably work a bit harder if they know it's going
> > into the main article namespace where it will be subjected to many
> > eyes and editors than if it's in their user namespace.
> >
> > Besides, we don't make other newbies' first articles go up for approval.
> >
> 
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> Maybe we should... just as page moving is disabled until you have a
> certain number of edits, so should new page creation. It would probably
> save VFD a whole lot of trouble.
> 
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