Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160528204037/@comment-24894325-20160530234604

One final thing that CzechOut touched upon. There are different psychological types of editors. Some editors are comfortable creating pages guessing a spelling, but would stop doing so if a prohibitive tag is put on. Others, like me, are comfortable pointing out that a page is to be created after the spelling is correct, but would avoid writing anything, terrified that somebody would create a page with a wrong spelling because I put it there. Surely, I can't be alone in the second category.

I'm sorry about the verbosity. As you can probably see, it's something that's been bothering me for quite some time. And I'd like to find a better way of overcoming individual cases of both "spelling stupor" and "spelling spree". I'm not at all claiming that what I've proposed is necessarily the only solution or the best solution. But I hope I've succeeded in identifying a problem. And I'd be happy if my suggestion would be improved or if an alternative solution is proposed.

PS And please say something about it in the policies. If after all it is preferred that we create pages with our best shot at the spelling, please put it in the policy. Because currently, a new editor really doesn't know what to do and probably defaults to his psychological type. In other words, assuming there are roughly equal number of people of each type, without a clear policy, about 50% of people do not do what they're supposed to, independent of what we are supposed to do.