Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
The alternative, though, is to start going down the
route of
editcountitis or verifiable expertise, neither of which is
particularly attractive either.
How about making the "approval" trigger simply be an edit by a user
who's been registered for more than four days? If it's good enough for
preventing vandalism on semiprotected pages I imagine it's probably good
enough to limit the vandalism elsewhere.