From: "charles matthews"
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
How about the much simpler approach of
restricting page creation to
logged-in users?
No, no and three times no!
Do we want people to try test edits of [[World War II]] rather than creating
[[pancakesMMM!!!]] as a sandbox/test edit. No we don't.
We don't know that this would be the effect. A great deal of logically
plausible human behavior doesn't happen. For example, nothing in a newspaper
vending machine stops someone for paying for one copy and taking several.
I find that many anons are graduate students very much
able to help with
developing WP. We need these guys! We need them to understand that 'libre
et gratuit', as the French helpfully put it, is exactly that. We ask no
more than that you come and edit; we put no barriers in place;
We promise that you can "edit this page," not "create an article." The
policy
is "zero-threshold editing," not "zero-threshold article creation.'