On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote: [snip]
- plenty of people have advocated for the semi-protection of all BLPs.
They get shot down because of the fact that the right of anonymous IPs to edit is a Foundation issue. There's not much room to change things here unless you have a specific change to implement, in which case you're basically the person who can do so.
The idea that openness for editing and protecting articles from harm are mutually exclusive is incorrect.
Many of the past stable versions proposals intended to remove that interaction but the community, *not* the foundation, instead preferred to wait for perfection from vaporware software rather than trying our some short term exploratory improvements... so here we are, years later, and nothing has changed in this area except the aggressiveness with which the status-quo is protected continues to increase and with it so must the dilution level of any proposed improvements.