On 10/20/07, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As I said in my other reply, this is far from the first article space
full
protection. It may be the first one implimented
consciously and
intentionally without a time limit on it, however.
How many years of persistent, organized abuse does it take to justify
sterner measures?
If this is unnecessary a month from now, tomorrow, or next year, I or
another administrator can unprotect. I don't have any authority to
order
it
truly permanently protected; Jimmy or the Foundation or Arbcom might,
but
I
don't. All I can do it state the case for the situation and see if the
rest
of the en.wp admin community agree and leave it, or disagree and
overturn
the protection.
As I understand it, this is how protection has always worked - at least
until the software supported automatic expiry of protections. Until then,
all articles were protected indefinitely until the dispute was cleared up.
This is still a perfectly valid thing to do today.
What perturbs me is why announce this to the mailing list if this is just
a
routine protection? Did the policies on page protection change to mandate
a
time limit for all protections?
Johnleemk
It's not a routine protection; it's a longstanding, active, serious abuse
case.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com