Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

The Odia-language Wikipedia community has discussed about the rise of persistent vandalism to create articles lacking notability criteria, and would like to change from the current privilege of allowing all non-logged-in users to edit to allow only logged-in users to edit. While the community has been active since 2011, only very few articles have been created by users without logging in, and we have seen hardly any value added by keeping the feature on. On the other hand, since October 2023, the vandalism has gotten worse, draining the sysops to delete the articles and block the vandals.

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

Multiple editors have discussed in a sockpuppetry investigation to create article about one individual which has come at the cost of vandalising existing BLPs of notable individuals sharing the same last name, creating articles (over 40 on Odia Wikipedia on a daily basis) with different titles, and ignoring all possible warnings from sysops. Odia Wikipedia has a relatively small community with all sysops contributing primarily to article namespace edits in addition to admin actions. This has become a gross waste of collective and volunteer labour which has forced us to ask fo the privilege change after a long and extremely liberal approach to new users -- we're committed to still welcome all new users assuming good faith.

Apart from this major incident, there are other ongoing article creations, particularly by readers who click on red links and create mostly one-liners.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

• This would allow the handful of sysops to focus on editing and other moderation activities rather than deleting trash articles every day and blocking socks.
• There are days (and weeks) when sysops miss out on moderating new article creations. The aforementioned vandalised article was one of the most viewed articles as seen on hatnote. This is a clear and gross abuse of using Wikipedia for PR, that to by creating articles on non-notable individuals/topics. Such known situations can be avoided by changing the current new article creation privileges.