[Foundation-l] Anons cannot create pages on english wikipedia?

Kim Bruning kim at bruning.xs4all.nl
Mon Dec 5 23:28:41 UTC 2005


On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:27:21PM -0800, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> 
> For the record, I very strongly support this. This is due to the fact that almost all, not just
> most, new pages created by anons on the English Wikipedia are borderline to complete crap. Thus it
> is sad, but necessary to limit the amount of needless clean-up work that those on new page patrol
> have to do. 

Correlation!=Causation.

Because this concentrates on a particular symptom of vandalism
-as opposed to the actual cause- I'm expecting new pages patrol to
become more difficult as the easy telltales are now hidden.

Let's see if that prediction comes out. Anyone care to place
bets? :-)

read you soon,
	Kim Bruning

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