[WikiEN-l] More fodder for your editcountitis

[David Gerard]

Martin Richards wrote:

>I have been looking at this for a while now, something that is clear is that
>virtually all (as in ~95%) of the deleted articles (especially speedies) are
>from anonymous users, and a lot of which aren't tests, but plain old
>vandalism.


I think that's unduly negative; it's more "sandboxing". They see "Edit
this page" and can't quite believe it.


> I really think we need some kind of "votes for creation" or
>"approved creation" or something, maybe not soon as there are still vast
>quantities of topics we don't cover (see [[Wikipedia:Wikiproject Missing
>encyclopedic articles]] for ~150,000 examples), but maybe a in year or so
>from now I dont think we will have much choice.


*shudder* I doubt I'll be bothering to create many articles under such a scheme.


- d.