Board Thread:Admin Noticeboard/@comment-3095286-20130419023919/@comment-4832338-20130419172216

Aelita Schaeffer wrote: I'd like to point out that autoconfirmed users don't have to have edits on other wikis; in order to be autoconfirmed, you need 10 mainspace edits and your account has to be a few days old. For that reason, I don't think the option to disable anonymous editing would also prevent non-autoconfirmed users from editing, since that would make getting the necessary edits impossible.

What I meant was if a user creates a new account to start editing on South Park Archives, and finds out that he can't because the wiki is protected, he will have to find other wikis to get the 10 mainspace edits he needs in order to be autoconfirmed. Personally speaking, I registered on Wikia for this wiki and all of my first 10 edits are here. If I were to find that I needed to be autoconfirmed, I'd most likely be unwilling to edit elsewhere just to be able to edit here.