On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:19:00 -0800 (PST), James Rosenzweig jwrosenzweig@yahoo.com wrote:
For everyone's information, en:User:OneGuy has posted a proposal here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disabling edits by unregistered users and stricter registration requirement
*sigh* Not this again!
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia which anyone can edit. Not "anyone who can be bothered to fill out a form, wait for an e-mail to arrive, fiddle about with magic verification URLs, and then try and remember what it was they were going to edit". Anyone who wants to start a project that's the latter, go do it.
See, for example: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_users_should_not_be_allowed_to_edit... and its talk page.
And for those of you looking for light relief: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_gays_should_not_be_allowed_to_edit...