William Pietri wrote The original WP wiki model was :Talk pages + NPOV + IP edits allowed and was a roaring success. So much so that :FTA (Floor the accelerator) was added to enWP. That gets us to where we are today in the somewhat modified form :Talk pages + dispute resolution + NPOV + NOR + RS + BLP + no IP page creation + COI + ... + TMOO (too many other acronyms) but FTA still applies pretty much to enWP, though Jimbo was for easing off last year. It looks like FTA has had its day. That surely is the main conclusion from this discussion. There are numerous ways to look at this change (of which locking new articles would seem to be one of the least flexible and attractive). Charles ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam