[WikiEN-l] [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation]] for anonymous creation of articles

Brock Batsell wikipedia at theskeptik.com
Mon Dec 5 22:53:34 UTC 2005


M. Creidieki Crouch wrote:

>Since anonymous users have been experimentally prevented from adding
>new articles, I have created [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation]]. 
>This allows users to request that a page be created, and list initial
>content.  I hope that this will dampen the effect of this policy
>change on the creation of legitimate articles.  I hope that others
>will consider adding this to their watchlist and helping out with this
>task; any registered user can fulfill these requests, or state why
>they think a request should not be fulfilled (article already exists
>under different name, etc.).
>
>-- Creidieki
>  
>
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what is the difference between this 
and [[Wikipedia:Requested articles]], which is well-established and has 
been around for a very long time?  It is even linked to from the warning 
anon editors see.

--bbatsell



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