[WikiEN-l] Re: The whole point of wikipedia

Wed Oct 19 17:17:10 UTC 2005

> Martin, I think you're confusing anonymous editors with vandals.
> We're allowing anonymous users to edit so there's a low treshhold to
> contributing.
> Kill that, and you take away a large pool of users who just haven't
> signed for various legitimate reasons.
>
> We can deal with the vandals. Forcing valid editors to do something
> they don't want to is a bad way to fight vandalism.
>
> --Mgm

I am not confusing anything, I may have just not made myself clear. The 
proposed change is proving rather popular at the moment, see 
Wikipedia:Blocking policy proposal . 