[Wikipedia-l] Protected pages

[Karen AKA Kajikit]

Stephen Gilbert wrote:
> 
> --- Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 September 2002 06:05 am, you wrote:
> > > I didn't know that certain policy pages were
> > frozen.
> > > What was the reasoning behind it?
> > >
> > > Stephen Gilbert
> >
> > Because policy cannot be changed without some kind
> > of consensus first.
> >
> > -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
> 
> Yes, but that doesn't explain why a sysop has to be
> the person who makes any agreed upon changes. Also,
> freezing these pages bars people from copyediting and
> linking.

The OBVIOUS reason behind it is that these are basic help-type pages
that a newbie has no reason to need or want to change. If they have
something to say they can do it on the related talk page. It just
simplifies things a bit to have them protected... and it's not like
there are any shortage of sysops around to make any necessary changes,
especially since anyone who REALLY wants to be one just has to ask and
they can be a sysop too. 

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