Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-14909251-20170109045918/@comment-14909251-20170109213039

A "seek approval" first policy is woefully inadequate and greatly disrespectful, because it de-facto creates two classes of contributors. Those who are in the privileged group can secretly decide beforehand whether an article gets to exist and then create the article, while those who aren't have to get some sort of public agreement beforehand with the potential that someone else may create it instead presuming there has not already been a secret decision rendered on the article's creation. Simply having a set of rules for when an article should or should not be created is much simpler and keeps everything equal.