On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams < kwwilliams@kwwilliams.com> wrote:
Not sure where to reply to a top-post to a bottom posted thread, so I will shoot for the middle and hope people can keep track of this knot. Your counterexample (which can be manually done today, so I've got experience with it) invariably winds up with a fan-flood of inexperienced editors and we wind up semi-protecting the article to keep them from damaging it.
Since when an inflow of new editors is a bad thing? Of course, not all newbies will become productive editors, but if we start outright potential new people, we will end up with Wikipedia ran by three grumpy cats. See Citizendium for an example of a wiki that failed because it couldn't maintain a stream of new contributors as old ones were leaving.