Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/22/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
The missing piece of data is: what proportion of anonymous editors are good contributors? If it's very small, then it's a non-issue.
I have a theory that for any change made by an anon editor:
- if it's a deletion, it's probably vandalism
- if it's the addition of more than a sentence, it will probably be
unsourced and get reverted
- if it's only a net change of plus or minus 5 characters, it's
probably a useful copy-edit
Sceptre's second law: If only five bytes have been added to an article in a diff by an IP, it will almost always be the word "gay".