On 31/03/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with this. It's a lot easier to fix the 1,5 million articles we have if there's not constantly new stuff pouring in. But people will turn to Wikipedia if there's a new hurricane or massive flood or to read about a country's new prime minister or president.
These are the type of articles that need to be created and kept up-to-date as they happen for maximal effect. If we were to do this for a significant amount of time, we'd be severely lacking in articles about current events. How do you think we should handle that?
Oh, we can invent a process. Give the "article creation right" flag to admins or bureaucrats or [some arbitrary respected group of people], have a process where new articles can be created in a short period if it's utterly essential, leave them to it with the understanding it really shouldn't be used much.
It's certainly nothing we can't solve just by fiddling the rules a little bit, and as we ourselves *make* the rules...