[WikiEN-l] anons editing

[Christopher Larberg]

If you need another reason, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_rifle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_rifle>, which was just taken from a redirect to a full-fledged article by an anon.
-Slowking Man
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fennec Foxen<mailto:fennec at gmail.com> 
  To: English Wikipedia<mailto:wikien-l at wikipedia.org> 
  Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 8:30 AM
  Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] anons editing


  On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 21:40:38 -0700 (PDT), zero 0000
  <nought_0000 at yahoo.com<mailto:nought_0000 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
  > In my almost-a-year editing Wikipedia, I am yet to hear a convincing
  > reason for allowing anons to edit at all, but saw plenty of cases when
  > I wished they couldn't.  Zero.

  Anonymous editors may become interested in Wikipedia and become
  non-anonymous. This occurs with greater frequency it would if the
  anonymous user was not able to experiment prior to registration.
  There's one- okay?
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