From: Timwi timwi@gmx.net We promise that you can "edit this page," not "create an article." The policy is "zero-threshold editing," not "zero-threshold article creation.'
This is just hair-splitting. Just because we've never mentioned page creation in any sort of "promise", doesn't mean we should stop offering it.
We should stop offering it because IMHO a very small threshold for creating an article--such as creating a free, anonymous account--would be more helpful to our goal of building "a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" than a zero threshold for creating an article.
And my point is that we would not breaking any explicit or implied promise by so doing.
I heard Grace Hopper talk once, and she said "I am going to give you a gift. For the rest of the life, every time you say the words 'because we have always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours.'"