User:Sj/motivation
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Many contributors get a bug in their bell-bottoms, a bee in their bonnet, and want to run off and do something hundreds or thousands of times. Amazing, fantastic, grand - do as little as possible to thwart that. But the quality and focus of the current project progress must also be preserved -- how to let these two ideals intertwine?
1) have a friendly way to say "nice work - but you need to improve F, B, and Z : while practicing on that, please create your pages within your own userspace [have a canonical way to do this] and then request the pages you've made become proper articles [have a canonical way to do this also, selecting from your drafts]"
- Examples of users needing this: Vibup1 (posting partial cv bios and movie reviews of new Malay films that had no articles, but included good info that could be reworked into an encyclopedic plot and other summary), others posting about themselves or their favorite orgs who need help with neutrality, enthusiasts who don't know how to find sources or demo notability who need help there...