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

[Bryan Derksen]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 8/25/06, Stefan Sittler <kiaparowits at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Instead, it's an experiment of indefinite duration with analysis (of
>> an unknown kind? where is this analysis described?) presumably being
>> done by some person or persons, probably, and the results to be
>> revealed at some later unspecified date.
> 
> Think of it as a "trial" or a "change with unspecified duration",
> rather than an "experiment", and the pain will go away.

It doesn't, because "trial" is still just as misleading as "experiment"
without some plan for evaluating the trial's results and "change with
unspecified duration" is just a euphemism for "change with indefinite
duration."

I don't have any fundamental problem with making this a permanent change
provided a rigorous analysis actually shows that it helped the
situation. I'm told that an analysis has been done. So there's an easy
and obvious way to make me quit complaining about this issue.

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