Tony Sidaway wrote:
To be fair, the tag that geni removed was placed there by me. Danny had protected the article in question on February 10, inserting the standard "protected" notice and placing the comment "[[WP:Office]]" into the protection log.
On 8 March, I found it protected and did the normal check in the history and the talk page. Finding nothing special, and considering this to be a forgotten protection, I unprotected. When informed that the page had been protected under [[WP:OFFICE]] I reprotected and at that point inserted the following tag at the head of the article:
"This article was protected on 15:32, 10 February 2006 by [[User:Danny]] as an [[WP:OFFICE|Office Action]]" [[Category:Protected]]
I should add that Feburary 10 -> March 8 is *entirely too long* for a WP:OFFICE protection. Anyone finding something protected that long should be verrrrrrrrry welcome to email Danny *and* me (cc please) to ask what is up. Normally that length of protection would indicate either a mistake or something serious.
I would say that in most cases, WP:OFFICE need not result in protection (semi-protection is more likely), and when there is protection it should normally not be for more than a couple of days.
--Jimbo