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The proposal is to create a "Page protector" user right, which would allow users to semi-protect articles for a period of one hour. The purpose of this right is to allow editors who regularly and accurately report pages for semi-protection to WP:RFPP to semi-protect high-view, high-volume-vandalism pages while allowing administrators on RFPP time to respond to the report. The proposed restrictions of the right are as follows:
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[edit]The proposal is to create a "Page protector" user right, which would allow users to semi-protect articles for up to 24 hours.
Problem needing solution
- Reports to RFPP often have a non-trivial delay in response time, which may be of little consequence to persistent but occasional longer-term vandalism, but in cases where an article is receiving exceptionally high traffic due to breaking news and the like, a delay of even several minutes may result in scores or hundreds of readers viewing a vandalized (often badly) version of an article.[1]
- Because these articles are most likely to be vandalized by anonymous or newly registered accounts, semi-protection is usually sufficient, and because the events themselves that cause such exceptionally high traffic are usually fleeting, short term protection is often all that is needed.
Restrictions
- Users would only be technically permitted to protect pages in WP:MAINSPACE.
- Users may only semi-protect to stop ongoing obvious vandalism or blatant BLP violations (that is, addition of unsourced negative information). Socking, edit warring, other disruptive editing, etc. are off limits.
- Users with this right would not be able to unprotect articles, even those they themselves have protected.
- Users will usually not be considered for the right unless they have a reliable history of reporting at RFPP with a high level of accuracy. Applicants are expected to have read and demonstrated an understanding of WP:VANDALISM as well as WP:PROTECT, and have a demonstrable track record of counter vandalism work.
- Protection may be removed by any uninvolved administrator, whether by request at WP:RFPP or otherwise. Protection removed by an administrator must not be reinstated by any Page Protector. Similarly, the right itself may be removed by any uninvolved administrator who has reason to believe it is being improperly or uncautiously used. For these purposes, Administrators who have previously protected the same articles as the editor are not considered involved.
Notes
[edit]- ^ As examples, 2017 person-based Google Doodles that were viewed in the United States:
- Abdul Sattar Edhi - 28 February 2017 - semi - 385,000 views
- Edmonia Lewis - 1 February 2017 - semi - 779,000 views
- Fred Korematsu - 30 Jan 2017 - pending, semi - 865,000 views
- Bessie Coleman - 26 January 2017 - semi - 937,000 views
- Ed Roberts (activist) - 23 January 2017 - semi - 875,000 views