Erik Moeller wrote:

I can see three immediate ways to address the issue, by increasing complexity:

• limit protections by policy
• add an automated or template-based visible marker to protections in

the article namespace

• add an "expiry" feature for page protection similar to blocks

I am merely reporting this issue and will leave it to others to deal with.

Perhaps using Salvatore Ingala's validation feature would help. After all, he did design it with the aim of reducing page protection.

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-July/030898.html

-- Tim Starling