Auto-expiring protection sounds like a very interesting idea -- has anybody submitted this to Bugzilla?
On 11/12/06, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 11/13/06, James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com wrote:
I believe it's been brought up to use an edit-approval program where new accounts would have to get their edits approved if they're new -- this
would
be in place of semiprotection.
I oppose this. It undermines the assumption of good faith, whereas S-P is specifically used on pages that have a record of vandalism.
It makes more sense to expand the protection model to allow for auto-expiry (as well as automatic labeling of protected pages). -- Peace & Love, Erik
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