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

[David Gerard]

On 25/08/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:

> I think it is a very poor assumption to think that anything which
> would have been created by users not logged in will find its way to
> AfC.  In fact, I believe that the AfC process tends to filter out
> exactly those submissions which are preferred - casual submissions by
> someone trying to improve things, and does very little to discourage
> people who are trying to push a viewpoint from wasting people's time.
> I've especially found the AfC process to be ridiculous when I run
> across a redirect that needs to be created.


In that case, should AFC be replaced with a notice saying "You need an
account to create articles"?

OTOH it sounds like a completely honest introduction to Wikipedia bureaucracy.


- d.