John R. Owens wrote:
I just wanted to check, if somewhat belatedly, that
this wouldn't be
considered an abuse of sysop abilities, if I protect one of my own
subpages. Taken strictly, it would break the rules, but I don't think it
would break the spirit of them at all.
Hm. Why would you want to do that? I guess it wouldn't be abuse, but odd.
Also, while I'm at it, I wasn't sure about an
edit I did earlier on
[[Johnny Rebel]] while it was protected. It was just a simple typo
correction, "Moustrap" -> "Mousetrap". Is that kind of
controversy-free
thing OK while it's protected, or should it be completely avoided to
prevent even the appearance of possible abuse? I just can't stand seeing
misspellings left alone, though. :(
Some people jump all over any appearance of abuse (as a few users did after
they saw a few Admins edit the page while it was protected). So yes it is not
a great idea to edit a page at all when it has been protected to stop an edit
war.
Side note: It's so bad, since I started doing
Wikipedia fairly regularly,
I find myself frequently looking for an "Edit this page" link while I'm on
other, non-wiki sites and I see an error. ;)
What? There is an Internet outside of Wikipedia? :-)
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)