[WikiEN-l] Report on unprotected, high-profile articles

[Erica]

FYI--
After some concerns were raised about the indefinite protection or
semi-protection of some high-profile articles, I decided unprotect
some that had been protected for a long time. (I also created a recent
change list and requested the help of a few other editors to help me
watch the pages. A list of pages I unprotected or set end-dates for is
available at [[User:Fang Aili/sandbox2]].)

All articles listed below were unprotected by me around March 29. Here
is a report on what has happened since. All re-semi-protected articles
were protected in response to IP vandalism, unless otherwise
specified.

==Countries and continents==
*France - Indef semi-protected on April 1.
*Mexico - Re-semi-protected, March 31. (expires April 14)
*Iraq - Re-semi-protected, April 4. (expires April 14)
*England - Re-semi-protected, April 3. (expires April 17)
*Europe - Still unprotected. Target of much vandalism, but also
constructive edits by IPs.
*Africa - Re-SP'd April 2. Expires April 7.
*Australia - Much anon vandalism. Re-SP'd on April 3, expires April 24.
*People's Republic of China - Still unprotected. Some vandalism. (I
kept page move protection.)

==People==
*Ayn Rand - Still unprotected. Some anon vandalism.
*Bill Cosby - Semi-protected again by myself after vandals claimed
Cobsy was dead, expires April 16.
*Benito Mussolini - Still unprotected. Some anon vandalism.

==Planets==
*Earth - Still unprotected. Fairly heavy IP vandalism.
*Sun - Re-SP'd on April 2, expires April 7.
*Mars - Re-SP'd on April 5, expires May 17.

==Other==
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - This has gone through many
edits lately, as can be expected. It was unprotected March 28,
re-protected the next day, and unprotected March 31.
*Black Death - A suprising target of much anon vandalism,
semi-protected again by myself, expires April 12.
*Buddhism - Still unprotected. Some IP vandalism.
*Aztec - Still unprotected. Minor IP vandalism.
*Baibars - Still unprotected. No vandalism.
*Amish - Still unprotected. Minor IP vandalism. At least one instance
of a constructive IP edit.
*History of Croatia - Still unprotected. No edits since I unprotected it.

==Analysis==
1. Of this group, countries were most likely to be re-protected.

2. With some articles, it seems our choices are: 1)Constantly monitor,
and revert often, or 2)Semi-protect and still monitor for (perhaps
less frequent) vandalism from registered users.  [[England]], for
example, was still getting vandalized even while semi-protected.

3. We may just have to accept that some articles will be indefinitely
semi-protected, or will go through cycles of one-week-unprotected,
several-weeks-protected.


Take the information for what you will. I am not sure I accomplished
anything other than reasserting what we already know. But it was an
interesting experiment.

Erica
User:Fang Aili