On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 21:59, Erik Moeller wrote:
David A. Wheeler wrote in part:
At the least, why not let the User:NAME pages be ONLY editable by NAME? The "User_talk:" spaces need to be editable in some way, but I don't see a need for others to "fix" the User: space of someone; it's not critical that that content be fixed, and there's advantanges to having some areas that are "precious" to each user.
Your other suggestions were against Wikipedia's openness, and I'm happy to be confident that they will never happen. But I do think that read-only user pages *as*an*option* would be a useful idea. There have been other problems before.
It is an option. Leave a message on a sysop's talk page and ask them to protect your user page.
Then the user himself would be unable to edit it.