On 25/08/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
The Siegenthaler incident happened exactly once. Using it as an excuse to shut down new article creation by "anons" makes as much sense as permablocking the class A netblock which happened to create the article.
Mm. We haven't had much more in the way of Siegenthaler experiences because of aggressively pursuing verifiability and NPOV on living bios, and an active wikiproject for just that job.
I'm all for experimentation. When Jimbo announced the experiment to limit new article creation I applauded it. But it's become rather clear that this was never an experiment at all.
I think the Siegenthaler thing was more coincidental. We were getting a FIREHOSE of crap created daily. Still are, I think.
- d.