On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On the other hand, semi-protection means that only checkusers can track down who did the vandalism. IP editors can be named 'n' shamed (as far as their internet origin goes, anyway). Logged-in vandalism is much more private for the vandal.
I'm inclined to support semi-protection even so, since it cuts down the rate of drive-by vandalism, but the point's worth making.
-Matt
That's a very good point, actually. For this reason, I think something like flagged revisions would be better permanent solution, but semi-protection is a good stop-gap. (And I'd also like to argue that slippery slope arguments are pretty weak.)
Incidentally, there's a new pre-survey page about the BLP issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protecting_BLP_articles_feeler_survey
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