Bulbapedia talk:A guide to Bulbapedia
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What purpose does this serve that a handful of other Bulbapedia pages don't already cover? I recognize the value in condensing it all, but...is there any demand for this? It isn't so much shorter as to be an easy read for every new user. -- evkl (need to talk?) 04:17, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
- I thought I would be good idea. So new users don't know how to use a wiki. --Clarky13 09:26, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
- That's very true, but how do you convince those users to read an article that takes them ten or twenty minutes to muddle through? The main problem with these articles, as I see it, isn't that they exist (they serve generally good purposes) but that nobody un-serious about editing wants to read them. -- evkl (need to talk?) 15:39, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
- Should I shorten it. Or brake it up into little article--Clarky13 07:17, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- I have no problem with this. I was actually looking at developing my own, but I'd have put fancy green borders around the section headers, just to make it look like the welcome template. I can understand how that would annoy people though. I really appreciate the work you've put in Clarky13; this covers quite a lot. evkl, you know my opinions about the MoS, but I don't think this is too huge. Unlike the MoS, everything is broken up into small sections, and it covers everything new users would need to know. In short, it's a one-stop shop for all Bulbapedia conventions and policies. True, there is still work to be made to this, but it explains most of the things that new users find challenging to comprehend if they have no wiki experience. IMO, it would benefit from links to the MoS and CoC, and maybe a mention of the shortlinks and signature policy, as these are main problems I see new users struggle with, after our now defunct userspace edit cap. All up though, very nice, if I was a new user intending to contribute I'd give this a good look through. My biggest problem is that we'd have to reorganize the welcome template!! — THE TROM — 07:38, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- Should I shorten it. Or brake it up into little article--Clarky13 07:17, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- That's very true, but how do you convince those users to read an article that takes them ten or twenty minutes to muddle through? The main problem with these articles, as I see it, isn't that they exist (they serve generally good purposes) but that nobody un-serious about editing wants to read them. -- evkl (need to talk?) 15:39, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
