Since you allow then to delete anything they feel like they don't have to be responcible. No messing around with does this fit criteria 7A or whatever. We'd also probably find out if the 3RR applies to admin actions. Personaly I suspect the resulting problems would provide a fairly solid answer as to why the try it an see aproach isn't always a good idea.
-- geni
That last line is pretty much my view.
Anon article creation blocking was based on the fact a lot of nonsense articles are created by anons, so not allowing them to create such articles would alleviate a lot of new pages patrol. I think Jimmy made a reasonable assumption here.
Even if he didn't, he is our benevolent dictator. If he required us to stand on our heads every time we didn't source our edits, we'd have to do it. He's the boss.
Mgm