Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-27886747-20170531071109/@comment-27713488-20170601020825

Lostone2 wrote: To be fair, as an unregistered user he doesn't receive any notification (in his/her email or in the top bar), so he doesn't have any motivation to check his wall, so MAYBE he doesn't (I don't really believe it, but it's possible). That is one of the reasons that explain why in many wikis you can't make edits without registering. He does seem to be aware people are objecting to his edits, at least. He complained the first time it happened.

I'm uncertain about whether we should restrict editing to registered users. Maybe in the articles themselves, if we can do it so specifically. I'm hesitant to block anons from comments and forum. 89.177.8.235 wrote: no comprehensive rules to follow, no guidelines of how a page should look and what not to change, no list of people to listen to (who have authority). Except I guess Decanter and Lostone are admins technically, but you have to specifically click their profiles to figure that out. Well, there is a list of people to listen to at Special:ListAdmins but it's not very well publicized. We could also modify the wiki to highlight the usernames of admins or similar. I haven't done this because I don't like to emphasize admin authority when we are a community project, but maybe we should.

As for a list of rules - it's possible, but I would hope it's common sense not to make sweeping changes without first discussing it. Not just here - in any community anywhere, that's a good way to cause friction and risk having your contributions rejected. Also, a few of his edits summarily deleted info without noting it.