Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC 2013

*As far as proposals 1-7, there is no consensus to implement any of those proposals. The proposals for a requestable user right or a new namespace did achieve significant support. However, these changes are both in and of themselves a bit too far-reaching in their implications to simply be enacted as a result of the somewhat limited discussion here. The creation or modification of user rights, or even more so the creation of an entirely new namespace would require at a minimum a strong consensus arrived at by a widely advertised process. There are also technical issues which may require assistance and/or permission from the Wikimedia Foundation to implement. So, on those two proposals there is a preliminary consensus which would constitute a reasonable basis for pursuing further discussion and contacting WMF staff to discuss the technical aspects. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:04, 23 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Currently, AfC exists as "informal" and "not required", but there's no specific policy and/or guideline for responding to new users wishing to create articles. Some people choose to respond by only telling them how to use AfC without telling them about mainspace (if registered), where others tell them how to create it in mainspace, and others are in between. The solutions I see are:

1. Require new users to use Articles for Creation for new articles, to the point of a policy change that would make it against policy to create new articles directly for new users.
2. Strongly suggest, to the point of the Article Wizard going straight to AfC and potentially other methods, that new users use Articles for Creation for new articles.
3. Recommend, but do not make it the only option, that new users use AfC to create new articles.
4. Remain indifferent, presenting both options and not suggesting one method or the other.
5. Recommend mainspace for creation of new articles by new users, with an {{unreviewed}} similar template.
6. Strongly suggest, to the point of making it the only option in the Wizard and potentially other methods, that new editors create articles in mainspace (with a similar stipulation as above).
7. Require, to the point of a policy change, that new users create in mainspace and mark as unreviewed by default.

As currently, it looks like the current status quo (before an earlier change I made to WP:WIZGO) is "Strongly suggest, to the point of the Article Wizard going straight to AfC, that new users use Articles for Creation for new articles", but not outright requiring it through penalty of deletion and/or warning. I'd appreciate the community's view on what should be done with this.

Assuming a "Require" or "strongly suggest" gains consensus, most likely "new editor" will need to be defined somehow; comments on this are also welcome below.

Thanks for your input ~Charmlet ^-talk- 02:33, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Additional proposal 1 - Additional proposal 2