[WikiEN-l] Re: Article creation

[Martin Richards]

> Neil Harris wrote:
>
>>How about the much simpler approach of restricting page creation to
>>logged-in users?
>>This would act as a minimal speedbump which is probably just enough to
>>discourage many (most?) drive-by junk page creators, whilst still
>>allowing anons to edit any existing page as freely as before.
>>This could be applied only to the main article space, thus allowing
>>anons to create talk pages as before.
>>This would be similar to the current restriction of image uploads to
>>logged-in users.

David wrote:
> Sounds plausible. What are the numbers on the problem? What percentage
> of anon page creations are shoot-on-sight?

I was only talking about the general principle, but yeah Neil's idea is 
probably better,

David, this is an extract from my user page (it isn't particularly 
interesting at the moment, I keep meaning to do more samples, but it's 
better than nothing);
I selected 4 random pages of 50 newpages, then deleted what was obviously 
speedy deletable, here are the statistics;

  a.. 200 new articles total.
  b.. 89 were from anonymous IP users.
  c.. 41 anonymous IP articles were deleted.
  d.. 0 registered articles were deleted.
21% of all new articles were easily deletable (all from anonymous users), 
46% of all IP user articles were deleted.

Note 1: More of the anonymous IP user's articles could have been deleted, 
but not strictly under the speedy deletion criteria, and they will 
eventually be deleted through AFD or edited to remove all the original 
content anyway. Some registered users articles will probably suffer the same 
fate, although none met the speedy delete criteria.

Note 2: 200 articles isn't a very big sample, but it is probably enough to 
be representative.

Note 3: There could have also been other admins deleting articles, so it is 
possible that an even greater proportion of them were speedy deletable.


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