[WikiEN-l] userpage and user subpage protection

[A. Nony Mouse]

Yeah, you do so - but as I have noticed on multiple occasions reading
your own userpage, you freely use your admin powers to lock yours down
whenever someone is defacing your user page.

Ordinary users don't have that right. Their options are to request
getting it locked and wind up having to beg an admin to lock it, wait
for them to edit, and then relock it whenever they make changes or
else constantly revert the vandalism.

It gets worse when an Admin decides to step in and make
unwanted/unneeded/unjustified changes to someone's user page: they can
freely lock the user out of their own space.

You, as an admin, have the power to edit your own user page even
through a page lock. I see no reason why ordinary users shouldn't be
allowed to edit their own user space even when it's locked to
outsiders; as far as I know, we have yet to have an instance of users
vandalizing their own user space, but we have PLENTY of instances
where user pages or talk pages have been vandalized by POV warriors or
just plain assholes and the ordinary users have no real defense while
the Admins sit idly by doing nothing.

A. Nony Mouse

On 7/25/05, Theresa Knott <theresaknott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In practice, though, users are generally considered to "own" their user
> > pages.  If someone edited my user page, I would probably move their
> > comments to my talk page, and this seems to be standard practice---a
> > user's user page is only for them to edit, barring extenuating
> > circumstances such as the user being banned.
> >
> > -Mark
> 
> What you are saying is true, People do generally feel they own thier
> user page. But it's very unwiki and not something to be encoraged by
> allowing admins to protect their user pages. I allow people to edit my
> user page. So does Jimbo, So do several others.
> 
> 
> Theresa
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