We now have about 1500 articles in Category:Semi-protected, which new editors and IP addresses can't edit. I picked a few at random, and most I checked were entirely uncontroversial articles which had briefly had some trouble from an IP address, which was over months ago and there was no reason to believe it would ever occur again.
This is in violation of one of our basic principles.
Would it not make more sense for admins to be expected to automatically make this sort of semi-protection have a time limit, assuming there was no reason to believe the article was a permanent vandal magnet?
An ever growing list of permanently semi-protected articles is not what we want, especially given that it's happening out of sheer laziness.
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