User talk:Dfranke

A belated welcome!

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 05:12, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pagers and boobytraps

We, as non extended confirmed users, can't edit in that article, nor any other article that requires ECR. You weren't allowed to discuss anything either, besides asking for edit requests.

But I also wanted to point out that, in the source you quoted, it states:

"2. "Booby-trap" means any device or material which is designed, constructed or adapted to kill or injure and which functions unexpectedly when a person disturbs or approaches an apparently harmless object or performs an apparently safe act."

~~Please, revert your edit.~~ My bad, I thought you had edited the article. Still, we're not allowed to discuss in that talk page. Gue101 (talk) 16:52, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can locate nothing in Wikipedia's policies which prohibits non-EC users from editing talk pages on ECP articles. Edit restrictions are generally enforced automatically; on the article page, there is simply no edit link.

The bit you quote simply establishes that the pagers were a booby trap, which is not in dispute; not all booby traps are prohibited by the protocol. Note though that there has been another exchange on the talk page, and there appears to be a discrepancy between apparently-authoritative sources as to the text of the protocol. I can't account for this and neither so far has anyone else. Dfranke (talk) 17:26, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Check WP:ARBECR:

"Non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace only to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided they are not disruptive." (emphasis mine). Gue101 (talk) 17:39, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]