I will be using this section of the talk page to organize related informtion. - Hydroxonium ( H3O+) 14:39, 14 February 2011 (UTC) — update - Hydroxonium ( H3O+) 16:01, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
The restriction on IP users creating new articles arose from the Seigenthaler incident where an IP user created a WP:BLP violation.
The restriction was going to be ended in 2007 with an analysis of the situation after one month.. This led to a lot of discussion and an RfC.
A related discussion came about in 2010, which mentioned some of the effects of the restriction.
I would encourage everybody to modify this RfC to improve it. I would also like to request any other information that might pertain to this RfC before we submit it to the community. Thanks. - Hydroxonium ( H3O+) 16:29, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
One of the arguments for this is that it is asserted that we have many more admins now than we did in late 2005 when IPs lost the right to create articles. But almost all that increase has been in inactive admins. Currently we have more active admins than at the end of 2005, ( We ended 2005 with 720 active admins, we ended 2010 with 766), but with RFA broken and a longterm trend of a 1% a month fall in active admins we are unlikely to end this year with as many admins as we had at the end of 2005. Ϣere SpielChequers 22:02, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
I will be using this section of the talk page to organize related informtion. - Hydroxonium ( H3O+) 14:39, 14 February 2011 (UTC) — update - Hydroxonium ( H3O+) 16:01, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
The restriction on IP users creating new articles arose from the Seigenthaler incident where an IP user created a WP:BLP violation.
The restriction was going to be ended in 2007 with an analysis of the situation after one month.. This led to a lot of discussion and an RfC.
A related discussion came about in 2010, which mentioned some of the effects of the restriction.
I would encourage everybody to modify this RfC to improve it. I would also like to request any other information that might pertain to this RfC before we submit it to the community. Thanks. - Hydroxonium ( H3O+) 16:29, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
One of the arguments for this is that it is asserted that we have many more admins now than we did in late 2005 when IPs lost the right to create articles. But almost all that increase has been in inactive admins. Currently we have more active admins than at the end of 2005, ( We ended 2005 with 720 active admins, we ended 2010 with 766), but with RFA broken and a longterm trend of a 1% a month fall in active admins we are unlikely to end this year with as many admins as we had at the end of 2005. Ϣere SpielChequers 22:02, 20 March 2011 (UTC)