Good to see you participating Epaulettes. Good idea, but I think the idea of the search function is to provide this service. 'Search before you ask' would be my choice of 'sticky', especially in the Wannabes forum. Having said that I think most guys on here are fairly sympathetic to Newbies and generally point this out quite 'tactfully' when the usual questions arise again.
I do see it as a double edged sword though, especially in the Wannabes forum, as I think the forum would slowly grind to a halt as fewer and fewer questions were posted (as they'd all been answered before) and I personally don't have an issue with answering similar questions again (well, leaving at least a couple of days before re-writing an answer!) and I think it is sometimes gentler on a (polite) newbie to do the search for them and show them where the answer lies with a link. Remeber, some guys are newbies to chat forums, not just pprune.
PP