Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-29/Page creation

It might be worth pointing out that while the response on the mailing list may have been somewhat in favour, the response on-Wiki (on the Village Pump) when Gmaxwell posted the announcement was somewhat (in fact, very much) against the change. Neil  ☎  12:52, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * And this should be discussed on-wiki, not merely on the mailing list. For myself, I think it a very bad idea; creating an account and waiting four days to make a new article is not onerous, and the wave of new articles by junior high school students about their girlfriends and against their rivals will be a great burden to the admins who will actually have to delete them all. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 14:12, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * What a horrible idea. I guess those on the mailing list have more say, ugh --too bad I hate using mailing lists. --Bobak 20:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't think you can say the response was "very much against" this, although it may have been more mixed than on the mailing list. A number of people were quite positive on the village pump, and being so naturally they don't spend as much time arguing over the plan. I don't want to turn this into a debate over the relationship between the mailing list and the wiki, but I think Greg's participation in both discussions makes clear that he at least considers the input from both venues equally.

For the comprehensiveness of this article, I did tend to use more of the mailing list discussion, which is easier to link to, and especially because it covered a wider variety of issues, as opposed to the village pump which focused heavily on Special:Newpages. But I've expanded the article with a bit more material to take that into account. --Michael Snow 04:21, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

The article states that the restriction "...applies only to encyclopedia articles themselves, not other features like talk pages." I think this is a bit misleading, since the only pagess anons can start are talk pages, afaik (not project pages, categories, templates}. Perhaps this could be clarified to state that anons are currently allowed to create talk pages, but not pages in any other namespace? --24.20.79.17 08:34, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I don't agree with the decision as I think it will further encourage the creation of articles about garage bands. However, I guess it is worth a try. Wikipedia does need to step up its efforts though to educate teenagers that articles about their band are inappropriate. If it leads to the New Page Patrol being overwhelmed with rotten articles, then it can be repealed in a month. Life, Liberty, Property 14:55, 8 November 2007 (UTC)