On 8/25/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/25/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
My own thoughts on this suggest that it'd be enough to just stick a big "WARNING: THIS WAS CREATED BY AN ANON" on the top of such articles for a while, and keep them out of google searches.
But maybe you and certainly others see quarantine as something different.
WARNING: THIS WAS CREATED BY AN ANON
John B Smith is a man from New Jersey who was suspected in the death of John F Kennedy Jr. Nothing was ever proven.
See the problem?
a) The statement isn't true; and b) the statement isn't referenced. Of course c) the statement wouldn't survive today for more than a couple minutes mainly due to the WP:BLP policy; d) that article could be created just as easily by someone logged in as by someone not logged in; and e) such a statement could be just as easily added to an existing page as it could be added to a brand new one (and in fact it would be much more likely to be caught if it was added to a brand new article).
The Siegenthaler incident happened exactly once. Using it as an excuse to shut down new article creation by "anons" makes as much sense as permablocking the class A netblock which happened to create the article.
I'm all for experimentation. When Jimbo announced the experiment to limit new article creation I applauded it. But it's become rather clear that this was never an experiment at all.
Anthony