Erik Moeller wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
>Toby Bartels wrote:
>>>David A. Wheeler wrote:
>>>>At the least, why not let the User:NAME
pages be ONLY editable
>>>>by NAME? The "User_talk:" spaces need to be editable in some
way,
>>>>but I don't see a need for others to "fix" the User: space
of someone;
>>>>it's not critical that that content be fixed, and there's
advantanges
>>>>to having some areas that are "precious" to each user.
>>>Your other suggestions were against
Wikipedia's openness,
>>>and I'm happy to be confident that they will never happen.
>>>But I do think that read-only user pages *as*an*option*
>>>would be a useful idea. There have been other problems before.
>>It is an option. Leave a message on a
sysop's talk page and ask them to
>>protect your user page.
>Then the user himself would be unable to edit it.
You don't say? Well, these are the problems of
read-only pages. ;-)
Ah, I see. Making a joke at the expense of my poor phrasing. Very well.
Luckily I included David's original text, so does anybody have a comment
on what we were actually talking about?
-- Toby