Wikipedia:The benefits of requiring account creation on Wikipedia

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A long-running debate amongst Wikipedians is whether or not to require users to register an account in order to be able to edit or not. Though consensus is currently such that creating an account is not a prerequisite for editing, many Wikipedians feel that there are reasons why it should be a prerequisite. This essay is designed to outline those reasons.