On 20/06/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/20/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:10:54 -0400, "The Cunctator" cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
[re no anonymous creation]
What specifically were the effects?
A massive reduction in "things made up in school one day", and consequently the speedy deletion queue. Or so it seems to me - I no longer do newpage patrol though (appeared to be much less to do after that change). But you know how it is, if there were a strong community consensus in favour of going back I bet it would happen.
Didn't speedy deletion get implemented around the same time or even after the change?
Speedy deletion's been around quite a while - the policy page dates to January 2004, and was descriptive then, so it's probably late 2003.
You can see an early form of speedy in mid-2003:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Deletion_policy&oldi...