[WikiEN-l] Preloaded new article forms to help the newbies?

Tue Mar 22 14:25:57 UTC 2005

Charles Matthews wrote:

> David Gerard wrote
>
>> There is that. OTOH, refs are a good way for a newbie stub not to take a
>> quick journey via Votes For Deletion.
>
>
> There is that too.  For me, though, a category on a stub is more 
> likely than a page reference (to a college text, say) to make it 
> prosper and grow. Trouble is, you just have to know whether it is 
> [[Category:Greek islands]] or [[Category:Islands of Greece]].  One day 
> our categories will redirect, I suppose.

In any case, it sounds like there is enough general support to 
immediately implement *some* sort of helpful skeleton.  Its actual form 
can evolve, especially if based on a standard template.

Tom Haws