[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

Sat Jun 17 01:26:25 UTC 2006

On 6/16/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
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> From the famous Herostratus RfA: "There's no excuse to not use the
> warning templates for users vandalising, especially IP users."
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> And the perpetrator of this idiotic statement is, according to his
> userpage, an RC patroller (although, blessedly, not apparently a member
> of CVU).
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> Once we were worried about the newbie contingent getting so large that
> new users were in fact starting to consider themselves old hands and
> influencing Wikipedia (see: CVU admins, userbox fiasco).  It's gone
> beyond that, now: these days, the newbies are offering *advice* to more
> clueful users, and expecting it to be taken.

Frankly, I can't believe you are getting so worked up over this. Life would
probably be a lot less stressful for you if you didn't take this personally.
They think they are doing the right thing, after all.

Ryan