Talk:nanny handbook

nanny handbook
SOP. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 18:59, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree delete (might even be spam). SemperBlotto 07:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, almost comical it's so SoP. --Mglovesfun (talk) 12:36, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Actarus (Prince d&#39;Euphor) 13:30, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * We might consider being less harsh. This seems to be the first and so far only (maybe last, after this type of critique) entry of a new user. Remember a recent message from WMF discussing the problem of diminishing number of contributors to all Wiki projects? General hostility towards annoying beginners (not exactly with this wording) was suspected to be one reason for this phenomenon. --Hekaheka 21:31, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I've put a welcome message ([[user:msh210/welcome]], which I welcome suggestions for improvements to) on his talkpage. He may be a wonderful editor, and I hope he stays/returns. But this entry is still not inclusible. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 21:44, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Converting more new contributors into long-term contributors seems to be a serious BP issue. If new contributors tend to believe that any noun-noun NP that might be construed in more than one way ("handbook for a nanny", "handbook by a nanny", "handbook with nannyish content", "handbook about nannies"), but is statistically more likely to have one specific construction, should be in Wiktionary, they might find support among our radical inclusionist wing. Maybe it would be an interesting project to see the distribution of prepositions that link these most commonly. But I can't imagine how we would ever recruit people to verify the assertions as to commonness.
 * And to me none of the above senses seem idiomatic, though the sense provided by the contributor is almost certainly the most common. DCDuring TALK 22:28, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I tend to agree that it's important to distinguish between contributors and their individual contributions. I agree with what Hekaheka says, but I don't think it should affect this discussion in any way. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:21, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, we decide solely on the merits of the entry, not on who entered it. SemperBlotto 07:23, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Yup, my comment was solely on the use of the word "comical". --Hekaheka 04:09, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Fails, deleted. --Mglovesfun (talk) 10:33, 19 April 2011 (UTC)