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Please sign your ideas.

GUILDWIKI POLICY PROPOSAL ROUGH DRAFT When a new member joins the community, more experienced contributors should always look to help as much as possible. This includes, but is not limited to:
 * Giving them a link to the Editing Guide.
 * Giving them a link to a trustworthy contributor for any questions that the newcomer may still have. (e.g. Entropy)
 * Explaining some of the policies for GuildWiki.
 * How to sign their comments.

Creating a bot?
How about making a bot to automatically post everything they should know on the new-persons page? or we could just use gimme.. hes about as good as a bot.. -- Warwick (Talk ) (Contr. ) 19:13, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

question
Are you talking about a template or something? IMO a template would make it easier. --Shadowcrest 22:40, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Good in principle, bad in practice
I think it's great to help out new users and stuff. But it shouldn't be "policy". People should just do it. Besides, a generic is dehumanizing...seen enough of that from Wikipedia and GWW. This is the same reason we don't use Warning templates or whatever. (T/C) 01:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Also assumes all newcomers are "newbies" needing hand-holding, while many new accounts will not be familar with "how we do things", the How to help which links off the Main Page already covers the basics, so think it better to leave em be unless they either seek assistance or a view of the RC log shows them to be struggling and may benefit from some targetted assistance. That's my worth. :) --Wolfie [[Image:Wolfie_sig.jpg|19px]] (talk|contribs) 01:39, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, I'll scrap the idea.--[[Image:Marcopolo47 signature new.jpg]] (Talk) (Contr.) 01:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Don't you ever fucking do this!!!
There at GWW we have Eloc. Eloc has a thing for new users. When he sees what he thinks is a new user (based only on their contributions), he goes to his talkpage and puts this:

"Hello, , and welcome to the Official Guild Wars Wiki! If you need help with anything, don't hesitate to add a message to my talk page. I highly recommend that you check out the "Welcome to the wiki" page - it's extremely useful as an initial guide. Best of luck and happy editing!"

When he did it to a long-time user, Ryudo, the guy freaked out, and drama emerged. Even some real new users hate that shitty welcome, others like it. I find it annoying. Let's ãvoid it, it's not like GuildWiki is getting many new users anytime soon.reanor 03:15, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ehh, like I said above, I'll scrap the idea.--[[Image:Marcopolo47 signature new.jpg]] (Talk) (Contr.) 03:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I still wanted to make my point, OK? (Gosh I hate that Eloc guy...)[[Image:Ereanorsign.jpg]]reanor 03:29, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * You're not the only one... Lord Belar 03:32, 26 November 2007 (UTC)