[Foundation-l] Anons cannot create pages on english wikipedia?

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Tue Dec 6 15:42:59 UTC 2005


Daniel Mayer wrote:

>For the record, I very strongly support this. This is due to the fact that almost all, not just
>most, new pages created by anons on the English Wikipedia are borderline to complete crap.
>
That is simply incorrect.  I do (or did, until this policy change) 
new-pages patrol on a regular basis, and I'd estimate no more than ~30% 
of new pages created by anons are "complete crap".  Certainly no more 
than 10-20% ever warranted speedy deletion.

-Mark




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