On 6/20/06, Lord Voldemort lordbishopvoldemort@gmail.com wrote:
He means that disputed articles that would have had to have been fully protected, can now be semiprotected. That way more people (not just admins) can edit the article, while potentially culling the problem. Correct me if I'm wrong. --LV
I'm being somewhat Socratic here, but how do we decide when an article "has to" be protected? Who decides? Does giving admins yet another power increase the divide between admins and everyone else? To what degree is that a problem? Does giving admins more tools give them more responsibility for policing, making the average user less responsible? Etc. There are actually some complicated questions here.
An imperfect analogy can be seen in 9/11 -- all the glorious powers and authority of the military and uniformed security people and official communications methods did nothing, but the unarmed passengers with cellphones and friends and family found out what happened and acted collectively to try to stop Flight 93. In some situations an elite police force is less optimal than expecting everybody to pull their weight.