On 29 April 2012 14:12, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > With respect, this doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Please consider: > > 1. We allow IP editing. One IP may be shared by thousands of people. Any one > of them can "say it wasn't them". If we are so careless about one half of > edits made to Wikipedia, does it make sense to be so stringent about the > other half?
We significantly restrict what anonymous users can do. Registered users can do more (especially once they've been around for a few days) because we know at least a little about who they are - we know they are the person that made the other edits on that account. With a role account, we don't know that. You could have one person editing semi-protected articles, for example, based on the good editing history of someone else. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
