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

[Steve Bennett]

On 4/1/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why don't we lock new article creation in the main namespace entirely
> for three months? Or six months? Demand that people fix existing
> articles.

Any proposal based on an assumption like "people spend X hours a week
working on Wikipedia, and if only we could stop them wasting those X
hours working on something silly" is flawed. If you stopped me
creating new articles, I'd probably just get pissed off and leave.

Steve