[WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/28 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/8/28 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>
>> The standard rule is that even admins aren't supposed to edit
>> protected pages. They are meant to stay as they are while people
>> discuss. I don't see the benefit to full-flagged protection over full
>> regular protection. It might be useful for things like widely used
>> templates that aren't protected due to edit wars, but that's about it.
>
>
> Protection is a failure of the wiki model in the first place.
> Discussion is a poor substitute for editing.

Edit warring is a failure of the wiki model. We use protection to
force people into a discussion model which works better in those
situations.