User pages don't get vandalised very often, and if you're known well
enough, people will revert it for you, before you even notice the
vandalism.
On 7/25/05, A. Nony Mouse <mousyme(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, you do so - but as I have noticed on multiple
occasions reading
your own userpage, you freely use your admin powers to lock yours down
whenever someone is defacing your user page.
Ordinary users don't have that right. Their options are to request
getting it locked and wind up having to beg an admin to lock it, wait
for them to edit, and then relock it whenever they make changes or
else constantly revert the vandalism.
It gets worse when an Admin decides to step in and make
unwanted/unneeded/unjustified changes to someone's user page: they can
freely lock the user out of their own space.
You, as an admin, have the power to edit your own user page even
through a page lock. I see no reason why ordinary users shouldn't be
allowed to edit their own user space even when it's locked to
outsiders; as far as I know, we have yet to have an instance of users
vandalizing their own user space, but we have PLENTY of instances
where user pages or talk pages have been vandalized by POV warriors or
just plain assholes and the ordinary users have no real defense while
the Admins sit idly by doing nothing.
A. Nony Mouse
On 7/25/05, Theresa Knott <theresaknott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In
practice, though, users are generally considered to "own" their user
pages. If someone edited my user page, I would probably move their
comments to my talk page, and this seems to be standard practice---a
user's user page is only for them to edit, barring extenuating
circumstances such as the user being banned.
-Mark
What you are saying is true, People do generally feel they own thier
user page. But it's very unwiki and not something to be encoraged by
allowing admins to protect their user pages. I allow people to edit my
user page. So does Jimbo, So do several others.
Theresa
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