On 10/16/06, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
I've just gone and removed semi-protections from about a dozen user talk pages. All of them were targets of vandalism in the past, generally due to their own anti-vandalism efforts. The pages included pages of administrators.
For obvious reasons, anyone who is warning and blocking new users in turn needs to be able to be contacted by these users with questions, concerns, etc. Semi-protection must not be used in this fashion, and I've removed the line supporting it from the semi-protection policy.
While I do agree with the general principle, I think there are certainly times where semi-protecting a talk page is warranted. If a useris being harrassed by a persistant sock-puppeteer for instance.
Second, if a person recieves so much vandalism on his talk page that it's beginning to be a problem, I think semi-protecting it for a while is a good idea, atleast so that the user isn't driven away by all of the abuse he receives. That has a tendancy to happen with vandal-fighters.
--Oskar