[WikiEN-l] edit war at [[Jewish ethnocentrism]]

[The Cunctator]

On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 00:31, koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com wrote:
> 2) The link to "unprotect this page" is inconspicuous, and other than
> that, sysops have no notice they're on a protected page.  I don't know
> if a sysop has ever unwittingly edited a protected page, but it's not
> hard for me to imagine it happening.  Maybe there could be a note at
> the top for sysops: "This page is protected.  If it's been protected
> because of a controversy, editing it will look unfair to people who
> are not sysops, and for good reason.  Perhaps you should unprotect the
> page first."

I just want to note that "protecting" a page to deal with edit conflicts
is a mediocre solution at best. 

This could have been handled so much better.