Simply freezing content seems rather unwiki, but here "lock" is just a misnomer for "extended protection," allowing sysops only to edit them. The idea is that WP has gotten too big and fast to monitor all vandalism quickly, and dormant/stagnant pages present an easy target.
As long as there are certain degrees between 'completely open' and 'completely closed,' and a means (other than just talk pages) for non-admins to request changes on "locked" pages, it should be fine.
And yes, a disfork linking a pop-band like "Green Day" from a general article like "minority" IS a problem.
SV
--- Zachary Harden zscout370@hotmail.com wrote:
There's nothing wrong in my opinon with this. However, I am worried about Jimbo's announcement about locking some articles. See
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20050805-1259-media-wikipedia.h...
Regards,
Zachary Harden
From: steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia
To: wikien-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] What's wrong with the world? Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:49:06 -0700 (PDT)
From [[ minority ]]:
''This article is about the concept of a minority.
For
an entry on the [[Green Day]] single, see
[[Minority
(song)|Minority]].''
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