On 7/21/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
We have already stripped new users and anons of far too many rights.
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It is clear that we have completely lost sight of the original aims of Wikipedia.
(As an aside, it is bad form to reply to *me* to oppose someone elses position which I don't share)
I'd really like to find out where you got this bizarre notion that Wikipedia's orignal aim was to provide "rights" to new users and "anons".
Wikipedia exists to make a Free Content Encyclopedia. It turns out that being promiscuous about who we allow to edit helps that goal rather well. That does not imply that all forms of promiscuity are beneficial. I expect you agree with this, or do you think we should post our root passwords on the website too? Once you have admitted that there must be limitations, it simply becomes a matter of discussing what those limits should be.
I'd like to think that such discussions should be allowed to continue dispassionately and without attracting hysterical cries about "destroying the project" or "stripping rights".