Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Archive/Disabling userpages creation by anonymous

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Disabling userpages creation by anonymous

Withdrawn by proposer (too many proposals)

• Problem:
  • Often, pages in user and user talk namespaces are created or vandalized by anonymous

• Who would benefit:
  • All

• Proposed solution:
  • Disabling pages creation by anonymous in these two namespaces

• More comments:

• Phabricator tickets:

• Proposer: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 12:05, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

• See Community health initiative/Allow users to restrict which user groups can edit their own user page, talk page and subpages thereof. Note the proposed default setting is autoconfirmed (admin only if no edits are made). MER-C (talk) 12:32, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Preventing anonymous users from creating user pages (or similar rules as preventing all non-autoconfirmed from editing other users's pages except talk pages) can easily be done via abuse filters. The benefit is, that it's flexible in the way, that any local exceptions to the rules can be incorporated by simply editing the filter code. --Teslaton (talk) 17:29, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2: you have more than 3 proposals in the survey. Please mark all of your other proposals as {{withdrawn}} else we'd have to remove them ourselves. Thank you. -- NKohli (WMF) (talk) 20:02, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Even if it doesn't go against Founding principles (and it would certainly go against enWikipedia's protection policy) there is no indication of a benefit here. On the contrary, sometimes IPs need to start an user talk page to communicate with someone or they are static but don't like making an account and then make an userpage for themselves. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:31, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

The survey has a limit of three proposals per person; archiving this one at the proposer's request. -- DannyH (WMF) (talk) 21:34, 13 November 2017 (UTC)