Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-7114405-20150723220235

As of the 23rd July 2015, Wikia has given wiki administrators the option to disable editing by anonymous contributors; the MUGEN Database has taken the decision to adopt this feature for the following reasons:
 * 1) To prevent the creation of vandalism, spam and 'warehouse' pages, the vast majority of these pages are created by anonymous contributors and end up getting deleted on sight.
 * 2) To try and stem the tide of vandalism that happens on a daily basis, which usually consist of inflating values in the stats template or randomly placing something in headers, infoboxes or image formatting that breaks them.
 * 3) To put an end to rolling IP spam, or at least make it more manageable; not only would making a new wikia account after having a previous one blocked consume enough time so that we can clean up the current mess and adequately prepare for the next one, but having to constantly make new accounts would be a time investment that may deter those who would normally just quickly change their IP.
 * 4) To encourage responsibility and accountability for the edits that users make, as well as to promote the adding of factual information as opposed to content that could be interpreted as speculation or is mere word of mouth.

In the event that Wikia decides to give wiki administrators the option of only preventing anonymous contributors from creating articles but still allowing them to edit, we will consider switching to this option, as there are anonymous contributors that make helpful edits, usually to fix typos, grammatical errors or the wording of certain sentences. 