No, you have to wait 4 days to create the new article
anyway.
I do believe you can create immediately. You're maybe thinking of
semi-protection, or page moving. (Really, try logging out.)
Speaking of which, I understand the page move restriction on new accounts was a
temporary measure. Specifically, to protect against a certain person on wheels.
This person seems to have moved on, no?
> On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if
it is precisely these obstacles
> which also cuts down on the nonsense.
Damn straight. :) Seriously, what gets posted at AfC
is sludge. And
that's from the newbie editors who actually made the effort to wade
their way through the process and make a submission!
The only benefit in allowing anons to create articles is in stroking
their egos long enough for them to become good editors (while deleting
their creation in the meantime). We should attempt to quantify that
benefit.
I assume this is based on the idea that new accounts can't create articles. If
that were true, it would be a very different story.
As it is, I don't see this as a choice between allowing or disallowing
"anon"
page creation at all, since account creation is unrestricted. It's more of a
question of "how many clicks must an unregistered person go through to create a
page, and how obvious should we make it which clicks they should make?"
Regards,
Daniel Mehkeri