Wikipedia talk:Selective page protection

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[edit] Is this possible?

On first reading, this looks like it should be a feature request on Bugzilla. Oldelpaso 19:41, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Ultimately this proposal would need to be implemented by the developers; however, community support is often important in determining whether feature requests will be implemented -- see Wikipedia:Blocking policy proposal, for example. John254 14:55, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

That is false; it is seldom if ever important, and it is doubtful whether it was important in the case you cite. The developers have more important matters to worry about than what the community thinks. You should ask the devs whether this is a good idea or widely unfeasible. >Radiant< 10:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification

I don't know if this is technically feasible but it seems like a good idea: I don't really see any potential problems, it's basically adding another tool to the arsenal and admins are free not to use it.

The proposal should probably explicitly state that this is supposed to supplement and not outright replace the current protection system we have though. That way, we'd have a three-step system:

• selective page protection for simple, straightforward cases (as the least invasive measure) / move protection (if applicable, unchanged)
• semi-protection (for more severe cases; vandals with access to proxies, botnets, etc.; articles that would require frequent adjustment of the affected IP ranges for selective protection; high-visibility articles, etc.)
• full and cascading protection (unchanged)

-- Seed 2.0 11:46, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Status update?

Just out of curiosity, since it's been about four months since this was proposed: did anyone actually talk to the devs about this? --Seed 2.0 12:03, 11 June 2007 (UTC)