[WikiEN-l] Proposal: make user pages uneditable

Wed Nov 3 07:05:33 UTC 2004

Matt Brown wrote:

>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 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.
>  
>
I generally agree that user pages should be respected.  Perhaps the only 
circumstance where I would feel justified in editing another user's page 
would be to fix a broken link that I created because of an edit that I 
did elsewhere.

Ec