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We now have about 1500 articles in
Category:Semi-protected, which new editors and IP
addresses can't edit.  I picked a few at random, and
most I checked were entirely uncontroversial articles
which had briefly had some trouble from an IP address,
which was over months ago and there was no reason to
believe it would ever occur again.

This is in violation of one of our basic principles.

Would it not make more sense for admins to be expected
to automatically make this sort of semi-protection
have a time limit, assuming there was no reason to
believe the article was a permanent vandal magnet?

An ever growing list of permanently semi-protected
articles is not what we want, especially given that
it's happening out of sheer laziness.



 
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