[Wikipedia-l] protected pages

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas R. Koll wrote:

>>I'm a sysop, and I don't want people messing up certain pages under my user
>>page...would it be considered unfair if I protect them or am I allowed to
>>do so?
>>
>I'm szsop at the German WP and I protected it to prevent vandalism for a few
>vandals.
>Anzwazs it's mz own page and I would suggest that onlz the user himself can
>edit it, no matter if szsop or not.
>
In general I have no objection to users protecting their own user page. 
 I do not substantially change other user pages, and expect mine to be 
respected in the same way.  

Still, there are times when such changes can be acceptable.  If my edits 
in some article have caused a broken link in a user page, it is only 
proper to go there and fix the damage that I have caused.  If I can't 
fix iit because the bage is protected, well ...too bad.

Ec