Help talk:Contents

Re the most recent edit, which got rid of the "Getting a user account" section and replaced it with a "Helping with this Wiki" section, the new approach has streamlined things but there are a couple of issues:

1. There is still text remaining in the page which refers to user accounts but now nothing explaining what they are, why anyone might want one, how to get one, etc.

2. The rationale for the change, that user accounts are "only for people on the editorial team", overlooks the substantial group of those who edit their own personal pages, exactly the type of person addressed by much of the page.

I feel there is still some value in encouraging people to get user accounts, as someone may get a feel for editing that way and move toward becoming a more general editor. A user account can be presented as an alternative to working with an editor to edit your own page. Without this alternative, the "wiki editor" is presented as a kind of elite class that nobody should think of joining. -- doofus-9 08:14, 15 August 2021 (UTC)