Date: 30 Apr 2003 01:14:20 -0700 From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Sysop limits On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 00:04, John R. Owens wrote: The obvious question is: why would you want to do that? What benefit will it bring you to prevent your neighbors from editing that page? Is there some reason that other people possibly editing this mysterious unnamed page would be harmful? Protecting a page without a pressing technical or 'wikipedia national security' need is Seriously Un-Wiki Bad Mojo; expect it to get un-protected and to receive dirty looks from passers-by if anyone notices you've done it. ;) It very very much violates the spirit of the rules; locking of pages is a technical remedy meant for very rare emergency cases; it isn't something you do because they're "your" pages and you don't want other people to touch them. Subpages of your user page (like your user page itself) are "socially" in your space, but it's a friendly, neighborly, open space into which you invite your neighbors to play in if they're interested. There's no picket fence with a locked gateway, and certainly no razor wire and guard dogs or "no tresspassing" sign. Of course, if a persistent vandal has been tromping all over one of "your" subpages, then it probably makes sense to protect it. (But better if you don't keep editing it during that period.)