If you need another reason, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_rifle, which was just taken from a redirect to a full-fledged article by an anon.

-Slowking Man

----- Original Message -----

From: Fennec Foxen

To: English Wikipedia

Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 8:30 AM

Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] anons editing

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 21:40:38 -0700 (PDT), zero 0000
<nought_0000@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In my almost-a-year editing Wikipedia, I am yet to hear a convincing
> reason for allowing anons to edit at all, but saw plenty of cases when
> I wished they couldn't. Zero.

Anonymous editors may become interested in Wikipedia and become
non-anonymous. This occurs with greater frequency it would if the
anonymous user was not able to experiment prior to registration.
There's one- okay?
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