Tony Sidaway wrote:
To be fair, the tag that geni removed was placed there
by me. Danny
had protected the article in question on February 10, inserting the
standard "protected" notice and placing the comment "[[WP:Office]]"
into the protection log.
On 8 March, I found it protected and did the normal check in the
history and the talk page. Finding nothing special, and considering
this to be a forgotten protection, I unprotected. When informed that
the page had been protected under [[WP:OFFICE]] I reprotected and at
that point inserted the following tag at the head of the article:
"This article was protected on 15:32, 10 February 2006 by
[[User:Danny]] as an [[WP:OFFICE|Office Action]]"
[[Category:Protected]]
I should add that Feburary 10 -> March 8 is *entirely too long* for a
WP:OFFICE protection. Anyone finding something protected that long
should be verrrrrrrrry welcome to email Danny *and* me (cc please) to
ask what is up. Normally that length of protection would indicate
either a mistake or something serious.
I would say that in most cases, WP:OFFICE need not result in protection
(semi-protection is more likely), and when there is protection it should
normally not be for more than a couple of days.
--Jimbo
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