[WikiEN-l] Re: Proposal: make user pages uneditable

Wed Nov 3 01:10:41 UTC 2004

Arwel Parry a écrit:
> In message 
> <42f90dc004110215456670a8d5 at mail.gmail.com>, 
> Matt Brown 
> <morven-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> 
> writes
> 
>> I believe that under most circumstances a user's main userpage
>> [[User:X]] should be a place for that user to state what they want the
>> community to know about them and their beliefs, philosophies, aims,
>> goals, etc.  In other words, the main User: page is intentionally POV
>> and there should rarely be a need for other contributors to edit it.
>>
>> It is certainly NOT a place for other users to place their opinion of
>> that user under normal circumstances.
>>
>> However, all this is accomplished with the current state of affairs.
>> User pages are indeed rarely edited by anyone but the user.  There are
>> rare cases of vandalism, quickly undone.  Few users' pages are
>> regularly vandalised, and those pages can be (and are) protected under
>> our current policy.
>>
>> It strikes me that some of those wanting their user pages protected
>> from editing by other users are not doing so out of actually
>> experiencing any problems, but rather, as UC says, from a sense of
>> 'ownership'.  This IS a bit troubling.  Certainly userspace is
>> different than other namespaces in the system, but it seems to me that
>> the 'Wiki way' is to avoid trying to fix problems in software whenever
>> possible - instead relying on community norms and consensus to set de
>> facto policy.
>>
>> 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the rule of the game here, I
>> think, and I haven't seen sufficient argument that the current state
>> of affairs is so broken as to override the objections.
>>
>> -Matt (User:Morven)
> 
> 
> Well, I just protected my page today, after it had been vandalised for 
> the 10th time in 8 weeks by the same bastard, using a range of IP 
> addresses so individual short-term blocks had no effect.
> 
> I strongly support the proposal to restrict the editability of user 
> pages to the user concerned in normal circumstances.

I may have 30 or 40 user pages now.
Anyone may edit them.
If I do not like the edit, I just revert :-)