[WikiEN-l] Protection of the Today's FA

[Ilya N.]

Agreed. It may be a bad idea to do it all the time, but I'd rather that new
readers didn't go on FAs and see pictures of penises

On 3/2/06, Jtkiefer <jtkiefer at wordzen.net> wrote:
>
> Zzyzx11 at Wikipedia wrote:
> > It seems that some admins are protecting the "Triumph of the Will"
> article
> > to prevent vandalism, even though it is currently Today's FA and against
> our
> > protection policy of high visible articles. I was even reverted on the
> page
> > protection:
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=protect&user=&page=Triumph+of+the+Will
> >
> > Comments? ~~~~
> >
> > Zzyzx11 at en.wikipedia.org
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zzyzx11
> > zzyzx11 at hotmail.com
> >
> That policy makes no sense.  I agree that protection should be avoided
> if at all possible on visible articles but the policy is taken way too
> literally at times and there are times when protection of an FA is a
> good idea.
>
> -Jtkiefer
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