Wikipedia talk:Unprotections

Initial thoughts
It's interesting that this suggestion manages to sit in a niche between the other pages related to (un)protection: WP:RFPP, WP:PP, WP:AN/I etc. As an experiment, it is perhaps worth trying out more-or-less as a de facto, 'bold' approach; there's not a great deal here that would require the hunting of the Consensus.

Presumably an article could be simply removed from this list once things have quietened down to whatever the 'normal' level of noise on that article is; it would stop being useful if it served merely as a surrogate watchlist for all the popular pages. Equally, there'd be no need to list every, nor even very many unprotections here, since that'd a)add a not-usually-useful box-to-tick and b)rapidly overwhelm the usefulness of human intervention from here, basically resulting in an instantaneous backlog. We'd also get cries of "the admin surreptitiously unprotected 'my' page and didn't list it on WP:UN to try to hide that fact from me".

In the hypothetical case of wide-spread use, I think it'd need to be understood that listing a page wouldn't be an invite to re-protect as soon as a low-grade edit is made, but a heads-up that a busy article is open again and may benefit from particular attention, up to and including re-protection if things turn out to still be really bad. A brief comment on the raison-d'etre of this suggestion: articles in a confluence of pressure-points resulting in elevated vandalism are generally so widely watched/patrolled at that time that an additional listing of them somewhere probably won't appreciably increase the vigilance ratio for the article. But for other articles it could provide a handy collective pair of eyes.

It's worth considering that it also permits an additional technical measure if bot owners can teach their offspring about this page and its changes at some reasonable refresh-rate. -Splash - tk 01:42, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
 * This is not a bad idea, but I think it would be better to create a "watch out" section on WP:RFPP instead.  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  11:22, 17 September 2006 (UTC)