[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia page protection report

[Andrew Gray]

On 14/09/05, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:

> Across languages, possibly with the exception of Japanese, the German
> Wikipedia is alone in the pattern of locking down controversial articles
> for months. 

>From [[en:Japanese Wikipedia]] -

"Edit wars are stongly frowned upon. Articles may be protected as a
result of an edit war that consists of just three or four edits.
Protected pages will not be unprotected unless someone explicitly
requests it."

I suspect that last part is the key here.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk