Since the edit war is between a regular editor and several sysops, is it ok to protect it, and that some people (not included in the edit war) go on editing it ?
I looked for guidelines about this, and found none. Just guidelines asking sysops included in the war to please not edit the page. I found nothing about what 'other' sysops "proper" (with quotes) behavior should be. What is the usual on the matter ? Is this ok that controversial content is removed when the page is protected (fortunately to be moved where it probably belongs in this case, but with no consensus with the one holding the generally-thought wrong opinion) ?
Why do we protect ? Is it the best choice in all situations ? Did a protect/unprotect war already happen ? Is it desirable ?
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--- Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
Well, most of our regular contributors are sysops, so can edit if we choose. I doubt protecting it was that wise.
Fred Bauder
http://wwww.internet-encyclopedia.org
From: Anthere anthere6@yahoo.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:25:01 -0700 (PDT) To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Contraversial edit war
--- Dante Alighieri
dalighieri@digitalgrapefruit.com
wrote:
At 08:13 PM 7/22/2003, you wrote:
There is an edit war in process at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicism.
Could
someone please protect
it? Things have gotten way out of hand!
Unfortunately, I have taken
sides on the issue, so I must request that
someone
else protect it. A
mediator that is not Christian would also be
appreciated.
-- Michael Becker
I've protected the page. I have no interest in getting involved in the dispute, so consider me a third party.
I am confused Dante.
I think that when I put the edit war header, that
page
was protected. Then why did Rmhermen edited it to remove the controversial content if it was
protected ?
And why did you need to protect it again ? Who
removed
the protection ??? Are the ones not included in
the
edit war authorized to edit it ? (I feel lost here...could not there be a log of protection/unprotection ?)
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