Martin Richards wrote:
I have been looking at this for a while now, something
that is clear is that
virtually all (as in ~95%) of the deleted articles (especially speedies) are
from anonymous users, and a lot of which aren't tests, but plain old
vandalism.
I think that's unduly negative; it's more "sandboxing". They see
"Edit
this page" and can't quite believe it.
I really think we need some kind of "votes for
creation" or
"approved creation" or something, maybe not soon as there are still vast
quantities of topics we don't cover (see [[Wikipedia:Wikiproject Missing
encyclopedic articles]] for ~150,000 examples), but maybe a in year or so
from now I dont think we will have much choice.
*shudder* I doubt I'll be bothering to create many articles under such a scheme.
- d.