On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams <
kwwilliams(a)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.