On Jul 9, 2006, at 5:17 AM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Jesse W wrote:
On Jul 8, 2006, at 4:01 PM, mboverload wrote:
The only way to stop dubious edits by anon users is to not allow them to edit.
Again, you don't clarify whether you mean: 1) Wikipedia editors who do not associate their editing with their legal name, or 2) Wikipedia editors editing without logging in.
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I'm sorry, but I think you missed mboverload's point. I suppose the reference to "anon users" was an unfortunate red herring. Let me restate the point without it:
"The only way to stop dubious edits is to not allow people to edit."
I did suspect that might have been his "point", but if so, it's effectively a tautology - neither obvious, nor interesting, nor meaningful. One might as well say - "The only way to stop stop people from being Jews is to cause there to be no people-who-are-Jews." This doesn't really address any particular point.
In any case, considering the metaphor I used above - I call [[Godwin's Law]] on myself. I think this dead horse has been beaten into the ground. I'm going to stop, now.
Jesse Weinstein