Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-7114405-20150723210816

As detailed in the related blog post, a second option would be preferable that only prevents anonymous users from creating pages; wikia already prevents anonymous users from uploading images and other media files to a wiki for obvious reasons, so an option that allows anonymous users to edit pages but not create them makes sense in retrospect.

As also explained on the blog, edit vandalism can be reverted easily and by anyone, while only users with certain privileges can delete vandalism-created pages.