Jimmy Wales wrote:
But preveneting anons from creating new pages is a different matter, and it seems a worthy time to make an experiment of it.
I suppose I'm not really sure what this will buy us. It only takes away the class of problems: "page doesn't exist, anon creats a bad one". These are actually among the easiest to spot. Much harder are: "page exists as a stub, anon adds a sentence to it that is bad". These are harder to spot, and this does not address that; in fact, it will encourage troublesome anons to just find existing articles to put misinformation into, rather than creating new ones. I think, on the whole, that would be *more* of a problem.
-Mark