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

[Stephen Streater]

On 26 Aug 2006, at 01:01, Bryan Derksen wrote:

> 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.

You seem to be asking for NPOV - a bit revolutionary ;-)