On 29 April 2012 14:12, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
With respect, this doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
Please consider:
1. We allow IP editing. One IP may be shared by thousands of people. Any one
of them can "say it wasn't them". If we are so careless about one half of
edits made to Wikipedia, does it make sense to be so stringent about the
other half?
We significantly restrict what anonymous users can do. Registered
users can do more (especially once they've been around for a few days)
because we know at least a little about who they are - we know they
are the person that made the other edits on that account. With a role
account, we don't know that. You could have one person editing
semi-protected articles, for example, based on the good editing
history of someone else.