Fine. But what about the theoretical idea of allowing for private discussion/scoop spaces on wikinews, for example? Part of what makes news organizations work is their ability to privately collaborate in gathering news before its published.
SV Off topic? Certainly.
--- Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Actually, they would. Protection is meant as a defense against persistent vandalism, not as a reward for admins.
If you want a non-editable page, please don't use a wiki. I see no reason user pages need to be protected any more than any other page. You don't own these pages just because you created them in the user namespace. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Protected_pages_considered_harmful.
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