[WikiEN-l] Anonymous page creation will be reenabled on English Wikipedia.

[Kwan Ting Chan]

> Just speaking for myself, I would not have bothered with using AFC as an
> anon. You can't really draw firm conclusions from AFC about the entire
> population of anon editors because it's self-selecting - those who *really*
> want an article, as opposed to those who casually think "Hey, I could start
> a one-para article on this thing I know" are probably more inclined to use
> AFC. Unsurprisingly, those are the people with vanity, spam, etc. - not
> those with useful articles to contribute.

But surely those vanity, spam, etc. anon that *really* want an article
will just create an account to create it in the first place.

Note: I'm all in favour of turning it back on for a month and see how
that goes, so that there is some definitive data to refer to when seeing
which of the two choice is preferable.

KTC

-- 
Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
  - Heinrich Heine
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