And furthermore, if for some reason you don't want people editing your user page(s), you can put a note on them saying not to, and most people will listen, other then vandals. I have a note on mine saying TO edit it, and not many people do, other then vandals and anti-vandals :(
On 7/25/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
It may not be controversial as much as off topic. "Protection" is an issue for sysops alone, almost exclusively to provide for stability for pages which may be too much in flux--from vandalism to POV wars. Protection is something that is frowned upon as "unwiki", as if one sought to add secrecy or privacy to parts of Wikipedia. To distinguish subpages from other pages would require some software hacks, ("Please DIY") and otherwise would still present a wikiethical issue.
Further, protection may be associated with page visiblity, and "blacklists" to keep certain pages "private" (software currenly allows for system whitelists). While privacy might be nice on Wikinews for example, to emulate private "journalistic conference" for "scoop" discussions between editors and writers, I doubt that even subpage protection will happen on Wikipedia, aside from system stuff like monobook.css, etc. You can make your notes as <!-- hidden comments --> on there, if you want, but they will still be visible. ;)
In general, its been principle to keep things open, open, and open, though probably nobody would complain if you became a sysop and protected your own subpages.
SV
--- Jtkiefer jtkiefer@wordzen.net wrote:
I know that there have been discussions about this in the past and that this subject has been controversial, however for the life of me I have not been able to find a full discussion on this so I thought I'd ask here what the whole issue is with subpage and userpage protection and why is it so controversial and disputed?
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