On 05/12/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Does this apply to all pages, or just articles? It seems that IPs should still be able to create talk pages, both for articles and for users.
We'll have to ask Brion, but what you say sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Talk pages are separately controlled, and anons can indeed still create them.
I've gone ahead and turned on the restriction mode, per Jimmy's order.
This was brought up by [[User:JIP]] on [[WP:HD]] today:
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Today I've seen a couple of talk pages created for nonexistent templates, created by anon users, which have turned out as vandalism. I seem to remember that although anons can't create articles any more, they can create talk pages. I suggest that anons should be prohibited from creating talk pages for articles, categories, templates or project pages that don't exist yet, to prevent this sort of vandalism.
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It's pretty sensible; anyone feel modifying the "can create talk pages" system would cause problems? I assume it's simply a matter of setting permissions for various namespaces, but if it's anything more complex it might not be worth implementing...
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