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Some parts of this seem to go against the nature of Wikipedia, imo.  Not being able to create new main namespace pages until you have recognition stops someone new from coming along and creating a fantastic new article - they have to edit other articles and draw attention to themselves.  The proposal has merit but I think there are problems associating a user popularity rank with their permissions. [[User:Violetriga|violet/riga]] [[User_talk:violetriga|(t)]] 22:31, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Bad idea, it's as gameable as Slashdot's karma points. Tying privileges to it would increase the justification to try to exploit the system. -- [[User:Cyrius|Cyrius]]|[[User talk:Cyrius|✎]] 01:47, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)