[WikiEN-l] Proposal: make user pages uneditable

[byron gamildien]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 23:05:33 -0800
 Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Matt Brown wrote:
> 
> >I believe that under most circumstances a user's main
> userpage
> >[[User:X]] should be a place for that user to state what
> they want the
> >community to know about them and their beliefs,
> philosophies, aims,
> >goals, etc.  In other words, the main User: page is
> intentionally POV
> >and there should rarely be a need for other contributors
> to edit it.
> >
> >It strikes me that some of those wanting their user
> pages protected
> >from editing by other users are not doing so out of
> actually
> >experiencing any problems, but rather, as UC says, from
> a sense of
> >'ownership'.  This IS a bit troubling.  Certainly
> userspace is
> >different than other namespaces in the system, but it
> seems to me that
> >the 'Wiki way' is to avoid trying to fix problems in
> software whenever
> >possible - instead relying on community norms and
> consensus to set de
> >facto policy.
> >
> >'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the rule of the
> game here, I
> >think, and I haven't seen sufficient argument that the
> current state
> >of affairs is so broken as to override the objections.
> >  
> >
> I generally agree that user pages should be respected.
>  Perhaps the only circumstance where I would feel
> justified in editing another user's page would be to fix
> a broken link that I created because of an edit that I
> did elsewhere.
> 
> Ec
> maybe that`s the problem.people today do not seem to like
protecting each other.on wikipedia we are a family so that
means we must protect each other and our views.we do this
by being not so eveready to delete those views.
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