Wikipedia talk:Unprotected page

Can we get rid of this page please? It's better to keep the protection and unprotection details of a single page in a single list. silsor 20:43, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)


 * protected page was too large with both listings. What about if the list of temporarily protected pages was split off from the rest of it? Would that help much? Angela. 08:17, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)


 * I would like that. silsor 06:37, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure now whether that is a good idea. The non-temporarily protected stuff only takes up about 6kb anyway, so removing it doesn't really solve anything. Angela. 13:11, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)

from the village pump

The current situation with Protected page and Unprotected page is untenable. There are multiple listings for pages and it is difficult to coordinate between the two. It is better to have the history of a page's protection and unprotection in a single list. Angela proposed keeping the main list in a separate page on Wikipedia talk:Unprotected page. silsor 18:44, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * It's cumbersome. But it is a vast improvement on the old. single page system, which was absolutely hopeless. Tannin 20:04, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * I would submit that, if admins took the 30 seconds necessary to cut an article's listing from Protected page and paste it to Unprotected page when unprotecting, there would be nothing cumbersome at all. What is needed here isn't page reorganization -- it's admins taking a little extra time and trouble to make sure things remain organized.  Saying that as an admin who is giving himself advice as well as others, Jwrosenzweig 20:06, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Using the protection log instead
Now we have protection log, I'm going to submit that this page is not needed (though protected page is still useful in its own right). It's easy to see if which pages have been recently unprotected via the protection log. If the protection/unprotection discussion is useful, it makes more sense to me to move it to the article's Talk page. Martin 13:43, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * I agree. Reasons for unprotecting aren't really needed, though reasons for protecting probably are, so at the moment, protected page is still needed. Hopefully Dori's changes will make it to 1.3 so these reasons can be typed straight into the protection log rather than needing a separate page at all. Angela. 15:45, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)


 * Lo, it is done. Martin 12:19, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)