Board Thread:Requests for user rights/@comment-26047003-20150203213142/@comment-27557697-20150203223739

In Canada's technical constitutional monarchy de facto but de jure a democratic republic, we have a legal voting age. (Same as with the US.) The reason for this being that those who are under this limit (In Canada's case: 18) are not wise nor have the hindsight or understanding of the government that they can make an insightful vote. Without this limit, kids would be voting randomly without knowing the true extent of their vote.

The same would apply to this wiki. If you can't get 25 mainspace edits, you truly cannot know about the wiki enough to make an informed vote on the wiki. 25 mainspace edits isn't asking for a lot and seeing that people need only 25 mainspace edits means that we can weed out the people who randomly join and make votes from the people who actually care about the wiki and want to vote for the better of it.