This is the second time I am getting slammed by new editors editing at a newly released article moved from draft space, where it is rapidly discovered and then hit many times, *always* in the lead section, where newcomers should rarely, if ever set foot, and almost always detrimental to the article, through no fault of their own, violating various guidelines as they add pointless or incorrect links to the lead of an article. In the meantime, I have various articles and other drafts and templates and requests pending, none of which I have gotten to, because 100% of my time is now fighting fires at one article. This is disruptive, halts my editing, and doesn't help new editors, either. If I had only one or two or three such edits, I would leave longer edit summaries and stop by their UTP to provide additional guidance, but at this point, I just have time to stick my finger in the hole in the dike and stop the hemorrhaging.
Please do something about this. At a minimum, set up throttling, and limit newcomer tasks per article. There are 6.9 million of them, please don't send all the new editors to one article I am trying to maintain. Secondly, please do not send any newcomers to fix or add links that are not needed per the guideline, improperly formed, or piped when they should not be. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 02:31, 3 October 2024 (UTC)