No Jonathan, the alternative to admin-only-editing is not full protection. Semi-protection allows established users to edit an article. Established users are not the same as sysops, therefore the rest of the universe isn't non-sysops. I'm not sure what makes one an "established user" exactly, but I'm one, and I'm not an admin.
I would vigorously oppose any attempt to extend yet more editing power to the admin category. Admins are primarily supposed to have powers that affect meta elements, not the source text itself.? At least in a more perfect world. Will Johnson -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Hall <sinew...@silentflame.com> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 12:49 am Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How wikipedia could link into File Protection. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 19:57, <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > In a message dated 7/22/2009 7:01:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > sinew...@silentflame.com writes: > > OK - so ?I think a fair summary of this proposal (correct me if I'm wrong) > is: > We ?should create a group of experienced BLP editors (or similar) to > edit a BLP ?that has been the subject of an edit war. The page would be > protected from ?editing by other (non-sysop) users.>> > > Why do you say "non-sysop" ? ?Are you proposing this editing be ?limited to > admins ? I'm not proposing this - that email is just my summary of what Jay put forward. > If so I'd vigorously oppose. I have concerns about it too, but given that the alternative would usually be full protection, it might be the lesser of two evils. > > Will Johnson > > > **************What's for dinner tonight? ?Find quick and easy dinner ideas > for any occasion. > (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?ncid=emlcntusfood00000009) > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- 1001010 1001000110000111011001101100 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
