Wikipedia:Newbie treatment at Criteria for speedy deletion/Circeus

Circeus
My first batch was done early this week as. I created Ernest Rouleau and Joseph-Alexandre Crevier. Both received cursory checks from. In the first case a category was added (category:French Quebecers), in the second, the tags expand and wikify (neither of which, to be honest, I believe to be appropriate). A blatant misspelling ("pneumony") and links to disambiguation pages were ignored, and "category:French Quebecers" was not added to the second case. No stub templates were added.

Overall I suspect these articles did not attract attention because they were too good looking (despite a rather broad claim in the Crevier article). The edits came only three days later, probably as part of some article list review (I suspect something from ). I felt a bit ignored, but in a neutral not-doing-anything-bad way.

The second batch, made as the more French and composed of more contemporary media-type personalities, was far more interesting. In both cases where I had included a year, it was mistakenly done as 1997, not 1993 (accidental, actually, but an interesting test).

In retrospect, I wonder what the result would have been if I had used "Simone" and "Noel" instead.
 * Simonne Monet-Chartrand was noted by within ten minutes. It was wikified, the category fixed, and a reference added. He also added a DEFAULTSORT and project templates (which even I don't do too often). I think this one is quite impressive given the rather thin claim to notability. Most likely the existence of an article on fr: helped. He also template-welcomed me with a extra comment adding my sources.
 * Michel Noël was tagged under db-a7 by after 14 minutes via Twinkle (with assorted automatic message). This is actually quite sensible given the one-sentence blurb I used. Seven minutes later, Vejvančický added an interwiki, followed 12 minutes later by, who declined the speedy, wikified the article and added a references. The both of them polished the article into a much better stub.
 * Doris Lussier was slightly more developed, including a dubious wording ("was very involved in the struggle for sovereignty of Quebec."). In three minutes marked it with BLPunsourced, but immediately noticed the mistake and switched to unreferenced.  then took the article under his wing and, although not changing a word on my text, turned it into a nice wikified and referenced stub (though he left the unreferenced template and added a citation needed). He was the only one who extended the categories beyond those I had put in.

Overall this was a much more interesting "baptism of fire" which would have introduced a complete newbie to wikitext, and the welcome was nice. Mind you, I'm Asperger, so my reactions to these things are not necessarily representative. I intend to revisit the articles in 2010 for the WikiCup. Circéus (talk) 21:54, 15 November 2009 (UTC)