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

Thu Nov 4 01:17:20 UTC 2004

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> 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.

I once changed the "picture of the day" template to fix a problem with 
link table corruption. To complete the fix, I updated the inclusion code 
on all the user pages that used it. One of the users whose page I edited 
gave me this earful on my user talk page:

= Markup Editing on MY PAGE! NO! ==

As requested on [[User:JediMaster16|my page]], <i>please</i> do not edit 
my page without permission. Its annoying. Very annoying.

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<div style="color:red; font-size:300%; letter-spacing:.40in; 
background-color:black; line-height:150%;">THANK YOU</div>
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I suggest we regularly edit each others' user pages in an attempt to 
break this bizarre perception of ownership.

-- Tim Starling