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Some examples of possible e-mails are welcome

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Dear & lt; & lt; username & gt; & gt;

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to Wikipedia. My name is & lt; & lt; username, forename or pseudo-forename & gt; & gt; , an established editor on Wikipedia, and would like to offer my help.

I have now found deleted articles & lt; & lt; page & gt; & gt; , and see why it was removed. Wikipedia can only publish articles about people who have secondary sources published about them. This is partly to protect you as an individual. Without a source, any potential can be written about you that may be biased or incorrect factually.

The lack of resources can be easily fixed, and we will try to help you in finding this. Some examples of what is a reliable source can be found here:

& lt; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Identifying_reliable_sources # Some_types_of_sources & gt;

You are welcome to submit this to us, and we will help you form articles around them. We may also identify any issues with the source and advise you accordingly. Our goal here is to get you the most out of your articles, while protecting you from the wrong information.

I look forward to hearing from you. Please do not hesitate to ask about anything you are not sure of.

With respect,

& lt; & lt; username, firstname or pseudo-forename & gt; & gt;
& lt; & lt; url to user page & gt; & gt;

Discussion

I love this Peter. Obviously part of the question is whether the article is also famous even though I wonder if it's the discussion you want to have after they respond to seek help rather than up front? I think you're right, in general we want to be short and sweet at the beginning so we can give them some info and offer their help while not drowning it all out and getting them to give up. Surely if vandalism is clear, our response will be different. Do we want to keep reaching out in that case but with a different message? I can see the argument of 'waste of time', but I have seen the number of very small editors who started with vandalism (or what we would classify as vandalism) so the reach may still pay dividends. Jalexander - WMF 00:27, February 7, 2011 (UTC)

That's right. This is just one example of something we can use for a given situation. As we did with OTRS, a set of responses covering various situations can be developed. Generally, when this email template is used, they should only be used once; this is a brief but polite introduction to the basics. After that, everything must be motivated toward individual questions and problems, at their own pace. Basically it's like OTRS but we'll go in to help with content issues rather than telling them to go elsewhere for help. That's a big advantage. Symonds ( talk ) 23:27, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I realized I was talking to you on IRC right after you sent this but never really responded here as I wanted so everyone could see it. I totally agree with the idea, We do not want to frighten them and we can adjust everything to how they start responding and that is one of the great benefits you have with personal reaching ability to make those adjustments depending on what the user needs. The best of OTRS can do that and the worst can sometimes lead to a hell template. We obviously want to avoid template errors but reach out to something specific to their situation and invite them to try again and ask questions can do wonders and then we take it from there. Jalexander - WMF 04:36, February 11, 2011 (UTC)

Users who do not have sysop userright may find it difficult to determine article issues (notability, etc.), except for edit summaries. ? WirelessÃ, KeyboardÃ,? 03:19, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

With new users, quick deletion may be more common, and most admins record criteria # in their summary. Guoguo12 - Talk - Ã, 13:20, February 19, 2011 (UTC)

Ok. ? WirelessÃ, KeyboardÃ,? 15:19, February 21, 2011 (UTC)

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There is no point in sending this at random; someone who just wrote "Bob sucks his coil, LOL" does not need this email. That said... assuming this is for some new users writing something with a valid cat-in-hell chance (N, V) then... I want it to be more personal, less 'coroporate-talk', less formal, less such as templates.

Users may already have templates; it does not help.

So;

It is a very rough draft and, no matter how apparently, I will push a) the user submits it to adjust it, but b) (let's make sense) for some kind of sanity check to be done before being sent.

Originally posted here, ChzzÃ, Ã,? 23:36, February 25, 2011 (UTC)

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Dear & lt; & lt; username & gt; & gt;

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to Wikipedia. My name is & lt; & lt; username, forename or pseudo-forename & gt; & gt; , an established editor on Wikipedia, and would like to offer my help.

Wikipedia is a great resource with hundreds of editors making thousands of edits per day. Some of these edits are considered spam and graffiti and should be removed quickly to keep Wikipedia a reliable resource. There is a special editor who reads these edits every few minutes to view and delete them. However, sometimes they quickly remove suspicious-looking edits when they are actually made in good faith but have some words of play that do not look right at a glance.

I have read the edits you are trying to create and are sure you are trying to help improve Wikipedia. I want you to stay and willing to help you through your first few articles.

If you still want to try and help, you can feel free to contact me through this email address or on my Wikipedia & lt; & lt; talk page & gt; & gt; . Or if you want to try again without my help, please review the information in & lt; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help: Contents/Editing_Wikipedia & gt;.

With respect,

& lt; & lt; username, firstname or pseudo-forename & gt; & gt;
& lt; & lt; url to user page & gt; & gt;

My business. Inomyabcs (talk) 05:30, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

Looks good! A clearer explanation of how edits are returned and why it's a good thing. I've seen people take it back in a very personal way, and without a clear explanation, it scares people. Something like this is amazing. Symonds ( talk ) 10:03, February 13, 2011 (UTC)

This Agree looks great. This is a great thing for people and like their deleted articles look and really confused why "Wikipedia denies my contribution". Something like this I think can be very big and very helpful to reach out and try to explain it personally. Jalexander - WMF 05:07, February 14, 2011 (UTC)

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