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David Gerard wrote:
Alphax (alphasigmax@gmail.com) [050816 01:55]:
Theresa Knott wrote:
On 8/15/05, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe we should... just as page moving is disabled until you have a certain number of edits, so should new page creation. It would probably save VFD a whole lot of trouble.
No!No!No! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Totally daft idea! The first edit I ever made was creation of a new page. And it was a crappy stub. And had I not been allowed to make it I may never have become hooked.
See disclaimer :) But it would stop the amount of junk having to be scraped out of VFD, yes?
Disclaimer or no, there are people who would take that reason seriously as a justification. This sort of thinking is an example of why VFD as it is currently constituted is poisonous to the wiki.
This disclaimer I was referring to was mine that I wasn't particularly awake when I made that post.
As such, I'm not entirely sure whether you agree with Theresa or myself.
Open question to all: do you think that new accounts should be prevented from creating pages? Would it clean out VFD? Or is the idea fundamentally unwiki?
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