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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] Anons banned from creating articles
From:       Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal () inbox ! org>
Date:       2005-12-08 12:02:06
Message-ID: 71cd4dd90512080402r2cc428fcg5afa78f4b0fda3b9 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 12/7/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal@inbox.org> wrote:
> > And maybe the problem will shift from new articles to edits of
> > existing articles...in which case we may need to extend the
> > restriction to making edits as well?
>
> This is not a slippery slope. We already don't allow newly-registered users to move pages. So
> there is a ledge. As I said before: We should only lock things down slowly and only when not doing
> so will cause more harm than good.
>
> -- mav

We already don't allow users who use anonomous proxies (even if they
are logged in, in fact even if they are admins) to make edits, so
there's "a ledge" there too.

Of course we should only lock things down slowly and only when not
doing so will cause more harm than good.  Not allowing people to
create new pages unless they've already had an account for a while
*would* (in my opinion) cause more harm than good.  There is, quite
frankly, no experiment that I can foresee be performed that would
convince me otherwise, because the harm would likely take place over a
long time period.

Anthony
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