Neil Harris wrote:
How about the much simpler approach of restricting page creation to logged-in users? This would act as a minimal speedbump which is probably just enough to discourage many (most?) drive-by junk page creators, whilst still allowing anons to edit any existing page as freely as before. This could be applied only to the main article space, thus allowing anons to create talk pages as before. This would be similar to the current restriction of image uploads to logged-in users.
Sounds plausible. What are the numbers on the problem? What percentage of anon page creations are shoot-on-sight?
(Adding a new restriction is, of course, NOT something to be done lightly.)
- d.