[WikiEN-l] When an article is in full protection.

[Jay Litwyn]

[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wrong_Version Inevitable Postulate of 
Version Control]

"WereSpielChequers" <werespielchequers at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
news:8b07072f0907230421w257405c9w9d411ec737e7ca16 at mail.gmail.com...
> Actually there are circumstances when admins can and should edit fully
> protected articles per: 
> WP:FULL.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FULL>
>
>
> Does anyone really object to the idea of admins responding to a request 
> for
> admin help by editing a fully protected page in accordance with talkpage
> consensus?
>
> WereSpielChequers
>
>
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:47:18 -0400
>> From: wjhonson at aol.com
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How wikipedia could link into File Protection.
>> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Message-ID: <8CBD991B3A1AD8C-1414-581B at webmail-mh03.sysops.aol.com>
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>>  When full protection is used, then it should stay until it is changed to
>> semi-protection.
>> We should not have a type of protection that allows admins to make
>> *content* changes willy-nilly.
>> When an article is in full protection, admins should not be making 
>> content
>> changes, except perhaps to revert changes that were the problematic ones 
>> in
>> the first place.
>>
>>
>>
>> <<Jay's original email refers to using this when there has been an edit
>> war - in other words when full protection *is* used currently.>>
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