Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Delete/reply (11)


 * they don't even realize there is a talk page or if they do, they are often intimidated by how hard it is to participate in a conversation (because of technical and social barriers).

Bingo! This is the problem. Lose the high bar to he discussion page. The entry point to editing articles should start there. Having inexperienced editors editing articles without any prior discussion is no good. I've seen this time and time again, they have good intentions but end up with bad results. Look at this another way, is not the discussion tab the built-in starting point for Article Feedback? Let's make it better! The most common mistake is new users have no clue how to sign comments. This is trivial and should not be a problem. Make it automatic for IP users. Currently, if someone hits edit there is no reminder or pointer to the discussion page. So the Wikipeida discussion system is woefully inadequate, instead of fixing that this tool was created instead. Not good.