[WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

[David Gerard]

2009/8/28 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:

> The standard rule is that even admins aren't supposed to edit
> protected pages. They are meant to stay as they are while people
> discuss. I don't see the benefit to full-flagged protection over full
> regular protection. It might be useful for things like widely used
> templates that aren't protected due to edit wars, but that's about it.


Protection is a failure of the wiki model in the first place.
Discussion is a poor substitute for editing.


- d.