[WikiEN-l] The downside to requiring account creation. See also: [[Slippery slope]]

Thu Dec 8 12:23:55 UTC 2005

Brian schrieb:
> I'm still officially on wikibreak (can that be official? =) but I just wanted to
> drop a note here on my take on these new restrictions.
> 
> Many feel that the [[USA PATRIOT Act]] was only passed on the basis of it being
> a highly emotional, gut reaction. Pretty much everyone was OK with it at first,
> but over time a lot of Americans have come to wonder if it violates some of our
> very basic principles. That's just a surface analogy - don't read into it too
> far. The point is that, whether or not it is a perennial suggestion, and whether
> or not an article existed for several months and displayed a prominent person as
> an assassin, we should absolutely not go against the principles that got us
> here.

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Thank you for putting this into such clear words. There are a lot of
ideas floating around how to improve article control without giving up
our essential principle of openness. I think it is worth exploring these
first.

greetings,
elian