When full protection is used, then it should stay until it is changed to
semi-protection.
We should not have a type of protection that allows admins to make *content* changes
willy-nilly.
When an article is in full protection, admins should not be making content changes, except
perhaps to revert changes that were the problematic ones in the first place.
<<Jay's original email refers to using this when there has been an edit
war - in other words when full protection *is* used currently.>>
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hall <sinewave(a)silentflame.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 2:40 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How wikipedia could link into File Protection.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:33, <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
?No Jonathan, the alternative to admin-only-editing is not full protection.
Jay's original email refers to using this when there has been an edit
war - in other words when full protection *is* used currently.
Semi-protection allows established users to edit an
article.
Established users are not the same as sysops, therefore the rest of the
universe
isn't non-sysops.
I'm not sure what makes one an "established
user" exactly, but I'm one, and
I'm not an admin.
I would vigorously oppose any attempt to extend yet more editing power to the
admin category.
Admins are primarily supposed to have powers that
affect meta elements, not
the source text itself.? At least in a more perfect
world.
Will Johnson
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hall <sinewave(a)silentflame.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 12:49 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How wikipedia could link into File Protection.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 19:57, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 7/22/2009 7:01:10 A.M. Pacific
Daylight Time,
sinewave(a)silentflame.com writes:
OK - so ?I think a fair summary of this proposal (correct me if I'm wrong)
is:
We ?should create a group of experienced BLP editors (or similar) to
edit a BLP ?that has been the subject of an edit war. The page would be
protected from ?editing by other (non-sysop) users.>>
Why do you say "non-sysop" ? ?Are you proposing this editing be ?limited to
admins ?
I'm not proposing this - that email is just my summary of what Jay
put
forward.
If so I'd vigorously oppose.
I have
concerns about it too, but given that the alternative would
usually be full protection, it might be the lesser of two evils.
Will Johnson
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