[WikiEN-l] New policy proposal

Thu Dec 9 23:40:38 UTC 2004

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:19:00 -0800 (PST), James Rosenzweig
<jwrosenzweig at yahoo.com> wrote:
> For everyone's information, en:User:OneGuy has posted
> a proposal here --
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disabling edits
> by unregistered users and stricter registration
> requirement

*sigh* 
Not this again!

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia which anyone can edit. Not "anyone who
can be bothered to fill out a form, wait for an e-mail to arrive,
fiddle about with magic verification URLs, and then try and remember
what it was they were going to edit". Anyone who wants to start a
project that's the latter, go do it.

See, for example:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_users_should_not_be_allowed_to_edit_articles
and its talk page.

And for those of you looking for light relief:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_gays_should_not_be_allowed_to_edit_articles

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]