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.
Sounds plausible. What are the numbers on the problem? What percentage
of anon page creations are shoot-on-sight?
(Adding a new restriction is, of course, NOT something to be done lightly.)
- d.