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

[The Cunctator]

On 4/2/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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).

I soundly disagree with you that's the main conclusion from this discussion.

In fact, looking at your above summary, I might think the proper
conclusion to draw is that the bureaucratic overhead of contributing
to Wikipedia has grown out of control.