Oliver Pereira wrote:
I gather that it the general agreement is that the User pages are for the users' own use, and that it is bad manners for other Wikipedians to edit them. Would it be sensible to formalise this as a definitive rule - in fact, to make the page protected from edits by anyone but the user and the sysops? Anyone who wishes to address the user would still be able to on the associated Talk page, of course.
I think it best if we don't do this. Having even our own user pages editable in principle by anyone is good for us as a community. One of the important "feelings" to avoid is "ownership of pages"... even user pages.
--Jimbo