On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 21:19, Toby Bartels wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Of course, the rest of you who subscribe to the
mailing list clearly
feel that it's necessary to lock down the policy pages, so vive la
revolution!
Well, *I* certainly don't think that they need to be locked down.
I don't think that even [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines]]
needs to be locked down -- it's on my watch list, I'll fix it.
We just need to remember to be vigilant for suspicious edits,
like anonymous IDs, new users that we don't recognise, and you
(that is, people that may not know to discuss policy changes).
That should be easy enough; ensure accuracy and NPOV on these pages
just as on encyclopædia articles.
Well, if people aren't allowed to edit the pages without review from the
mailing list--and pretty much everyone who's on the mailing list can
have (or should have, IMHO) sysop priveleges, then the pages are in
effect locked down. And if they're in effect locked down, then they
should be locked down. Otherwise there's a logical disconnect.
When I said "lock down" I meant "prevent unauthorized edits". It
doesn't
matter if that prevention is done through technology or practice--it all
amounts to the same thing.