This is a tracking task for the work involved with identifying mechanism(s) that are capable of generating **compelling** and **constructive** suggestions **at scale** for newcomers. There will likely be parallel tasks that seek to do something similar for other groups of editors.
=== Requirements
For a "suggestion mechanism" to be considered viable in this context, it must meet the following requirements:
- **Prevalent**: newcomers need to be likely to encounter suggestions
- **Compelling**: newcomers need to find the suggestions compelling
- **Constructive**: patrollers need to consider the edits a suggestion causes to be constructive
=== Suggestion methods
WARNING: PETER TO COMPLETE
//This section contains a **living** list of the various suggestion generating mechanisms the team has considered...//
|ID|Method name|Description|Investigation task|Notes
|---|---|---|---|---
|#1| Repurpose existing Edit Checks| Apply Reference Check and Tone Check to //existing// content| |
|#2| Introduce a generic text-matching capability|Enable people to author an open-ended set of suggestions using a generic text-matching capability | |
|#3| Expose existing logic as suggestions|Use logic from existing gadgets, scripts, abuse filters, [database reports](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports) [i], etc. to identify content that could benefit from improvement | |
|#4| Integrate existing Suggestions| Showing existing "Add a link" and "Add an image" suggestions Growth implemented within VE| |
|#5| Identify issues with machine learning| Use machine learning to identify content that could benefit from modification| |
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i. [Database reports](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports): Thank you to