[WikiEN-l] Lock new article creation for three months

charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Mon Apr 2 15:54:16 UTC 2007


William Pietri wrote

> That's not to say it isn't the right thing to do if the model really is 
> a failure. But I'm not there yet.

The original WP wiki model was

:Talk pages + NPOV + IP edits allowed

and was a roaring success. So much so that 

:FTA (Floor the accelerator)

was added to enWP. That gets us to where we are today in the somewhat modified form

:Talk pages + dispute resolution + NPOV + NOR + RS + BLP +  no IP page creation + COI + ... + TMOO (too many other acronyms)

but FTA still applies pretty much to enWP, though Jimbo was for easing off last year.

It looks like FTA has had its day. That surely is the main conclusion from this discussion. There are numerous ways to look at this change (of which locking new articles would seem to be one of the least flexible and attractive). 

Charles

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