Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
On 7/12/06 3:09 PM, "Jimmy Wales" jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Well, the article survived AfD, sensibly enough, even today I notice that Seth has had to revert vandalism *personally*. I just now semi-protected it.
I'm beginning to think that any article with [[Category:Living people]] in it should be semi-protected by default.
Probably not "by default" -- the vast majority of articles are not like the unusual cases. And in most cases, semi-protecting the problem ones is not going to just push the vandalism (of this type) elsewhere.
Two types of vandalism: 1. I am a general purpose idiot and I like to do stupid things on the Internet. 2. I hate person X with an irrational passion, and I am going to camp out on their article to make sure it tells the world how awful they are.
The general purpose idiots, I think we have well under control.
The specific haters, we have under control if the subject is George W. Bush or Bill Gates, because those are popular topics and lots of people watch them.
If you are a borderline notable person, though... *and* you have a stalker or are somehow a flame-magnet... then I would say that a liberal application of semi-protection and *bonking* is worthwhile.
--Jimbo