[WikiEN-l] Blocking anon page creation was an experiment, wasn't it?

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 8/21/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This was way back in 5 Dec 2005. Has the experiment run long enough?
> What sort of experiment varies the independent variable only one way?
>
> Let's turn page creation back on for anons. We turned it off, so let's
> see what happens when we turn it back on; otherwise we're simply
> running on sheer blind inertia and unthinking myopia.


We don't need to. We saw what happened in the 4 years before it was turned
off.

Take a look at the monumental failure that is AFC sometime, which turning
> off page
> creation has forced on us. Valid, good articles are being entombed
> there.


And look at how many nonsense creations are being stopped there too.