In a message dated 3/11/2008 11:01:28 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, charlottethewebb@gmail.com writes:
Clearly we have a problem>>
--------------------------------------------- The dichotomy between admins and others, becomes like the Pigs in Animal Farm. At first they are merely helping administer the system, at the end, they exert power over the system at their own internal discretion.
Witness the permanent protection of the Main Page. Only admins can edit it. Interesting direction isn't it? Now we can progress to laying permanent protection on another fifty or five hundred articles.
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:04 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Witness the permanent protection of the Main Page. Only admins can edit it. Interesting direction isn't it? Now we can progress to laying permanent protection on another fifty or five hundred articles.
See [[Wikipedia:Protection policy#Full_protection]]:
"Indefinite full protection may be used for:
* Pages which are very visible, such as the Main Page, or very frequently transcluded, such as Template:Tl, to prevent vandalism. This includes images or templates used in other visible or frequently transcluded pages."
This page is policy, which usually (read: pretty much always) means the community has agreed to it. You're the first person I've seen disagree that the main page actually needs protection. So if you disagree, take it to [[WT:PROT]] instead of insinuating that this is all a plan to lock down Wikipedia. TINC.