[WikiEN-l] Ken Lay's death prompts confusion on Reuters

[Jesse W]

On Jul 8, 2006, at 2:51 PM, mboverload wrote:
> I don't think that's really possible unless we stop anon users from
> editing.

/me does a double-take.

Someone using the name "mboverload", with a gmail address of the same 
form, is claiming that we shouldn't allow people to use pseudonyms to 
participate in Wikipedia?

This is a pot calling for the abolition of all kettles, yes?

(And don't try to claim that "mboverload" is your legal name...)

This is presuming, of course, that the OP didn't merely mean to propose 
we ban editing without an account (which is a common, although 
incorrect, use of the term "anon user").  If that is what was meant, 
I'd merely point out that *We* *Have* *about* *Nine* *Hundred* 
*Thousand* accounts that don't participate in the community, and making 
a new account takes less than a minute.  Requiring accounts is a 
(small) speedbump, nothing more - it's not even close to sufficient to 
make Wikipedia editors non-anonymous, even to other community members.

mboverload, you've been asked before if you are merely a troll.  Let 
this message be counted as another such query.

Jesse Weinstein