Risker wrote:
There are some opportunities to improve practices
here, and to really take a
look and decide which articles (and rarely, article talk pages) need this
indefinite protection. At the same time, I really do believe that if an
admin is going to reduce protection on a page with an extensive history of
problems, he or she has a responsibility to keep an eye on the page for at
least a couple of weeks afterward to ensure there isn't a fresh outbreak of
inappropriate behaviour.
Agree with both points, naturally. But the discussion as a
whole seems
to indicate that "protection" has become one of our more Byzantine
concepts. Some work ought to go on, simplifying it from a hypertext
stance (categorisation and tagging), so that what happens is more
transparent. Anyone interested in reviewing the system and writing an
on-site essay?
Charles