Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Can we apply a similar anti-vandalism approach to NPP?/reply (14)

I'm aware of the principle on which  they  are sorted in  to  As and Gs, etc. However, my  own experience is that  the vast  majority  of A1 and A3 rarely  in fact  develop  into  serious articles. I religiously wait  15 -  30  minutes before tagging  an A1 or A2 that  is clearly  not  vandalism and when I  return to  them, it's usually  to  delete them. Nevertheless, this is not to  say  that  they  are bad faith  creations. I sometimes find (you  won't  get  NPPers to do  this kind of research) that  the author has simply  abandoned that  attempt, to  start  over by  recreating  the articlepage under a  different  page name. They don't know yet  about  sophisticated mechanisms such  as 'moving' new pages, creating  redirects, making  dab pages, etc.,  and this is one of the areas where we fail  to  make the creation  of new pages a more welcoming  experience. I well remember the first, and only  grave error I  made when I  started creating  pages for the first  time:  I  had misspellt the name of a French  wine. It took  me ages to  find out  how to  correct  or change the title of the page, and I  had no inkling that  in  Wikispeak, move means rename; I  finished by  doing  a a copy-paste move. At that  time, nobody  had left  a welcome message on  my  tp with  that  nice catalogue of links to all  the tutorials and info  pages. Now there's a thought for Jorm's user landing page at  Article creation workflow. Welcoming and profusely  thanking  new editors for all  their incredibly invaluable creations is one thing, but  perhaps if  would be better if new registrations were to  get  a partially  pre-formatted user page that  already  includes that  list  of links? People are working on  a better user page design, here's one, and I  seem to  remember Fetchcomms has been working  on  another, but  I  forget  how to  link  to  it.