Marc Riddell wrote:
Sources can be checked. What I'm presenting to are
the totally mindless,
malicious vandal edits by totally anonymous fools who have complete access
to the encyclopedia. Perhaps I am being naive, but I believe a named,
accountable User Page would go a long way to ridding Wikipedia of them.
Yes, you are being naive. :-) Have you been back to look at the user
login creation page? Did you see anything there to keep you from
creating ten different user accounts, and pretending to be different
people on each of them? Rumor has it that even the God-King has a few
extra, so that he can move among his subjects incognito. :-)
In fact, we do now require logins to upload files, and take a look at
commons; every day there are a dozen logins created, each uploading a
few copyvios (OK, sometimes legit images), and then never seen again.
Pretty much zero accountability there.
Vandalism by anons is a nuisance, but it's so easily and quickly
countered that it's just not a major issue for maintenance.
Stan