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

Fri Nov 5 13:39:13 UTC 2004

Tim Starling wrote

> If we protect user pages, we can
> expect vandals to vandalise talk pages instead.

Right.  The graffiti, if that is what they are, migrate.  Of course if they
are nasty personal attacks and repeated, user pages can rightly be
protected, and sanctions applied.  Proposal: do _not_ make user pages
uneditable as default.  This is the 'soft security' approach, which
generally has served wikis well: don't try to block out all the user
problems, because you won't.

Charles