Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Don't encourage templating/reply (6)

I suppose if we could get the templates friendly enough this might be better than "Welcome I've tagged your article for deletion". But my fear would be that however friendly we started the templates, and however much we focussed them initially on entry level problems, within a year or so someone would have added more emphasis by adding the red stop sign warning we give vandals and rolled the process out to other maintenance templates that are less like newbie tasks - de-orphaning perhaps or infobox missing.

But maybe there's another group we could enrol here. A large proportion of new articles by newbies are uncategorised. If Hotcat had an option "If I categorise a new article contributed by an author with a redlinked talkpage, also welcome the newbie". Then a lot of newbies who'd get a message from someone that would be likely to perceive as a helpful collaborator.