Quoting Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On 10/19/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/10/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 10/19/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
To attempt to end a many-year-old edit war, I have indefinitely full-protected the article [[Views of Lyndon LaRouche]].
Wow. If that sticks, it looks like the downfall of Wikipedia is closer than I had thought.
There should be a downloadable copy of the full history soon, for forking purposes.
Do you have some sort of inside information on this? Just because a dump starts doesn't mean it'll finish.
Anyway, not *that* close. The "indefinite full-protection as the answer to an edit war" meme has only been introduced, for now.
No, it is a meme that has come up many times before. This is the first time it has ever been implemented by an admin to my knowledge unless it was for salting purposes or temporary salting pending replacement with a more acceptable article. This is a disturbing event.