Todd Allen wrote:
Do WP:AFC for a few days, keeping in mind that the submissions there are made right next to a set of -very specific instructions-. Then see if you think anon page creation would be a great thing. If you think CAT:CSD backlogs -now-...
But can you actually _show_ that the quality of new articles went up when anon article creation was disabled? Sampling of new articles beforehand wasn't done and AfC didn't exist before anon article creation was disabled so there's no data to compare the current situation to. I'm not going to make an argument based just on my subjective opinion.
That's my whole _point._ As an experiment it was a complete failure since it produced no usable data. Perhaps by reversing it and actually collecting data this time we'll be able to salvage something from it.