[WikiEN-l] Proposal for dealing with reincarnations

Sat Feb 28 21:57:33 UTC 2004

On Friday 27 February 2004 16:23, uninvited at nerstrand.net wrote:
> Rookie : A logged in user who has fewer than 10 editing days.  An "editing
> day" is a calendar day when the user makes one or more edits.
>
> Frequently Edited Article : An article in the main encyclopedia namespace
> that has been edited more than 5 times in the last 48 hours.
>
> ==== Policy ====
>
> On the English Wikipedia, neither Rookies nor IP users are permitted to
> edit Frequently Edited Articles.

===== Solution =====

**Create user 1
**Make an edit as user 1
*Tomorrow: 
**Create user 2
**Make an edit as user 2
**Make an edit as user 1
*Day after tomorrow:
**Create user 3
...
*After 10 days:
**Fresh flow of non-rookie usernames