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

Tue Dec 6 16:50:04 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
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>>Daniel Mayer wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>That is simply incorrect.  I do (or did, until this policy change) 
>>new-pages patrol on a regular basis, and I'd estimate no more than ~30% 
>>of new pages created by anons are "complete crap".  Certainly no more 
>>than 10-20% ever warranted speedy deletion.
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>Your crap tolerance must be higher than mine. :) You also misquoted me; I included a range
>modifier.
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Well on the Dutch wikipedia the crap range for anon new pages is way 
over 50% so I guess on the english wiki you guys are really lucky ;)

Waerth/Walter