[WikiEN-l] Today's Featured Article

[Stephen Bain]

On 4/16/07, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aren't the articles selected to appear as "Today's Featured Article"
> on the Main Page supposed to be protected?

No. They are purposely not protected (unless it's really, really
necessary), mainly since as the article most likely to be seen by new
people, it should be editable.

There's a more detailed discussion of the rationale and the
counter-rationale here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Main_Page_featured_article_protection

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com