Matt Brown wrote:
Pruning Newpages is fairly easy. I don't think anyone has demonstrated that keeping up with the flow of junk articles is yet a problem, and certainly not one big enough to take such a radical step.
I agree with this. I actually kind of like doing Newpages patrol, and I don't think it's a huge burden on admins in general. There are actually probably more admins doing it now than strictly necessary---if you go past the newest 50 pages or so, most of the obvious junk pages have already been taken care of by another admin. It would have to be a much bigger problem than it is now to be worth changing something major like disallowing new page creation by anons.
-Mark