[WikiEN-l] Lock new article creation for three months

[The Cunctator]

On 4/2/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/1/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why don't we lock new article creation in the main namespace entirely
> > for three months? Or six months? Demand that people fix existing
> > articles.
>
> Any proposal based on an assumption like "people spend X hours a week
> working on Wikipedia, and if only we could stop them wasting those X
> hours working on something silly" is flawed. If you stopped me
> creating new articles, I'd probably just get pissed off and leave.

If I was stopped from creating new articles, I probably wouldn't be
that pissed off (okay, who am I kidding, I would) but no matter what
I'd stop creating new articles.




If you don't get it, my point is that would be A Bad Thing. How many
redlinks are there in Wikipedia?

Hmmmmmmmm?