For everyone's information, en:User:OneGuy has posted a proposal here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disabling edits by unregistered users and stricter registration requirement
There is already a vote of sorts taking place -- a list of "support" and "oppose" votes is growing slowly. I am not clear as to why a vote is taking place so early, or whether the vote is intended to have any force. I also don't know if it was advertised anywhere (I hadn't seen it anywhere but RC), but I thought a proposal (and apparent vote) to disable anonymous editing and add stricter requirements for registering as a user deserved a note on the mailing list. If it's already been posted here, forgive me (but I don't think it has). Thanks for your attention to this issue,
James Rosenzweig (en:User:Jwrosenzweig)
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