2009/8/28 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/8/28 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
The standard rule is that even admins aren't supposed to edit protected pages. They are meant to stay as they are while people discuss. I don't see the benefit to full-flagged protection over full regular protection. It might be useful for things like widely used templates that aren't protected due to edit wars, but that's about it.
Protection is a failure of the wiki model in the first place. Discussion is a poor substitute for editing.
Edit warring is a failure of the wiki model. We use protection to force people into a discussion model which works better in those situations.