On Dec 15, 2007 6:03 PM, Andrew Garrett andrew@epstone.net wrote:
My opinion was that "protected from creation" is different from "protected from moving or editing", because there is a distinction between protecting existing content from interference, and preventing old content from being created.
Not much more than the difference between protecting existing content from moving and protecting it from editing.
Of course, it could be done as an extra option on Special:Protectedpages called 'create'. This would, unfortunately, involve changing buildQuery quite substantially, although it could, of course, be done.
Can't be harder than making a whole new page. :)