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• "Someone signing up to edit a Wikipedia page ..." falls at the first hurdle, given that "anyone can edit" without signing up to anything. Dr Horncastle (talk) 22:54, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

• Eh... Most IP editors I see are purely casual, either fixing random mistakes or being a vandal. Most people who want to become active, serious contributors I've seen sign up for an account. From AnUnnamedUser ^{(open talk page)} 03:09, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

• Curiouser and curiouser: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/author/dan-fost/ - is this person a WMF employee or not? So why is he writing for the WMF? Freelance editor maybe, but possibly not 'free'. I've already expressed my concern for the way The Signpost offers a free platform for the WMF just to pad out the content of our ever thinning magazine. This article doesn't even address what is probably the average Signpost reader. Better, IMO, would be a synthesis of the WMF's 'news' by Signpost staff especially with news from the ever spinning turntable of WMF staff, new big donations, and the lack of transparency of where the money goes. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:11, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
• WMF tells us how interested they are in freshly-arrived free labor for their $35M annual enterprise. Obviously, WMF needs new editors with no expectations and ignorant of SanFran's grift despite the fact that new editors make n00b mistakes annoying everyone else. Those older editors aren't valued by WMF because long-term editors form opinions and think they deserve a say in matters. The only editor retention that happens here is editor-enacted. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:19, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

• We usually delete promotional garbage from paid writers. This doesn't belong on Wikipedia. SilkTork (talk) 08:52, 29 November 2019 (UTC)