On 12/04/07, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I can only reply to this thread as a whole by
repeating something that I've
said before, which is that if anonymous editing weren't possible, I for one
wouldn't be on Wikipedia today. I'm one of the many who came across an
article that contained something that needed fixing, discovered that I could
fix it myself, and got involved from there. If I'd had to register an
account to fix it, it's highly likely I would have just wandered off.
I look at it like this:
If registration is required, Wikipedia is no longer "the encyclopaedia
that anyone can edit".