[WikiEN-l] userpage and user subpage protection

Tue Jul 26 00:16:57 UTC 2005

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 at 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 at 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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