[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia page protection report

[Phroziac]

On 9/14/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is only true if there is no social norm forbidding a sysop to edit
> a protected page. At least, on the english and french wikipedia, I do
> think the rule of no-edit on a protected page exist. Maybe not on all
> projects ? Can you from your data gather such an information ? I mean,
> are there situations when a long-protected article actually grow and
> evolve during the protection ?

As far as I understand, an admin can edit the article if there is a
rough consensus to do so on the talk page.