David Ashby wrote:
Anyone who thinks they're an "inclusionist" should do Special:Newpages patrol some time. OH MY GOODNESS THE FIREHOSE OF CRAP!
Tangent: so the banning of IP article creation has totally failed in its stated goal, namely to cut back on the "FIREHOSE OF CRAP"?
Interesting. Perhaps it's time for a re-examination of that policy.
-David
The banning of article creation by anonymous users significantly reduced the number of junk articles being created. Back then I was one of the people tagging, not deleting, but I remember the decision.
But that was over a year ago. Wikipedia has grown quite a lot in that time, and has become far, far more popular with people seeking to use Wikipedia for promotional purposes. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the rate at which unsuitable articles are being created now far exceeds the rate at which they were being created a year ago.
I fail to see your point, however. Allowing anonymous users to create articles again would result in yet more unsuitable articles. How does that help anything?
-Gurch