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This is a semantics debate, and a good faith read of each our comments seems to show agreement in our understanding of the situation. "Want" does a lot of lifting, and they want 2 contradictory things (no vandals, anyone can edit) and are prioritizing those wants.

I'm saying that by prioritizing the want of "no vandals" you are making want of "open to everyone" untenable. I'm sure their actual top priority is "the best, most accurate listing of information" and everything else is in service of that goal, but I don't really care.

My point stands: If you want anyone to be able to edit anywhere at any time, you can have that but you make trade-offs. Saying "vandals are bad and need to be stopped" is actually not an objective fact, it's a choice about what information you hold valuable.