Editing Eurovision Wiki talk:WikiProject Articles for creation (section)

== Restricting page creation  ==

Hello. I've seen a ton of trash drafts and AI garbage throughout my tenure at AfC, and I have a new idea. Temporary accounts and unconfirmed accounts can't create articles in any way whatsoever. Autoconfirmed users can only submit through AfC, and extended confirmed users can either use AfC or make a userspace draft. It may not do much, but a decent chunk of trash I've seen is created by unregistered users or temporary accounts. Please tell me if this is a bad idea or if I should move this to [[WP:VPIL]]. <span style="background-color: black">[[User:CabinetCavers|<span style="color: pink">CabinetCavers--</span>]][[User talk:CabinetCavers|<span style="color: yellow">--DEPOSIT OPINION, [valued customer]</span>]]</span> 16:32, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

:Yes, it's a very good idea.
:No, it's never going to happen (more's the pity). -- [[User:DoubleGrazing|DoubleGrazing]] ([[User talk:DoubleGrazing|talk]]) 16:36, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
::@[[User:DoubleGrazing|DoubleGrazing]] A real shame, I say. So much garbage and we can't do much to prevent it. May I ask why it wouldn't happen? <span style="background-color: black">[[User:CabinetCavers|<span style="color: pink">CabinetCavers--</span>]][[User talk:CabinetCavers|<span style="color: yellow">--DEPOSIT OPINION, [valued customer]</span>]]</span> 17:08, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
:::Tell me about it, I've just deleted a dozen or so hoax articles by a TA, each of which had been reviewed at least once – so much collective time and effort wasted just because someone gets a kick out of inventing fictitious TV series and bands and what-not.
:::I think the right of anyone to edit, mostly without any restrictions, is seen as so sacrosanct, so much a philosophical cornerstone of the whole movement, that the community (which may be just en.wiki, or all WMF projects, I dunno) simply wouldn't accept curtailing it. Just see the amount of effort they went into coming up with the whole TA system to allow anon editing while protecting IP info, when all they needed to do was to say that anyone ''can'' still edit but account registration is mandatory. But by all means, feel free to propose this, I for one will come and !vote '''Support'''! -- [[User:DoubleGrazing|DoubleGrazing]] ([[User talk:DoubleGrazing|talk]]) 17:25, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
::::I will post this to [[WP:VPIL]] and see what happens. <span style="background-color: black">[[User:CabinetCavers|<span style="color: pink">CabinetCavers--</span>]][[User talk:CabinetCavers|<span style="color: yellow">--DEPOSIT OPINION, [valued customer]</span>]]</span> 17:26, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
:::::Convenience link: [[Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Restricting page creation]]. –[[User:Novem Linguae|<span style="color:blue">'''Novem Linguae'''</span>]] <small>([[User talk:Novem Linguae|talk]])</small> 05:36, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
:This is what we're here for. It takes very little time to reject stuff that's trash. Just reject it. -- [[User:Asilvering|asilvering]] ([[User talk:Asilvering|talk]]) 21:54, 10 March 2026 (UTC)