Warcraft Wiki talk:Protection policy

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Icon-policy.svg This policy is under proposal.
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The voting process
If one side has reached five votes and has outnumbered the other by 3 to 1 for seven days, that side has won and you may make the following changes based on the outcome:
  • If Yes has won
    1. Replace {{Policy proposal}} with {{Ratified}} on the article.
    2. Archive the votes (Warcraft Wiki talk:Protection policy/Archivevote) and remove {{Policy vote}}.
    3. When implementation is complete, replace {{Ratified}} with {{Adopted}}.
  • If No has won
    1. Replace {{Policy proposal}} with {{Rejected}} on the article.
    2. Archive the votes (Warcraft Wiki talk:Protection policy/Archivevote) and remove {{Policy vote}}.

Votes

Yes
  1. Yes PcjWowpedia admin (TDrop me a line!•C207,729 contributions and counting) 19:28, 23 July 2017 (UTC) - (Originally proposed)
  2. Yes Xporc (talk) 20:00, 23 July 2017 (UTC) - (optional comment)
No
  1. No — foxlit (talk) 17:49, 27 July 2017 (UTC) - (If "this policy will serve as a guideline", it might as well be a guideline rather than a policy.)
  2. No — SurafbrovWarcraft Wiki administrator T / C 05:58, 26 February 2018 (UTC) - (It's pretty much when it is deemed appropiate. I agree with foxlit on this. It would seem better as a guideline.)
  3. No Alayea (talk / contrib) 21:52, 24 October 2018 (UTC) - (See below.)
  4. No DDC (talk) 01:54, 30 October 2021 (UTC) - (Right now it reads as a guideline, so I agree with eitehr foxlit (make it a guideline) or Alayea (merge with WP:Protected pages).)

Comments

The single motivating example for this presented in Forum:Protection policy seems unconvincing to me (Wrath of the Lich King, indefinite autoconfirmed protection applied was equivalent to the page not being protected at all); it's unclear why this policy is necessary. Are any editors actually negatively affected by the current set of protected pages?

On the surface, the guidelines appear to call for unprotecting e.g. {{Infobox Alliance}}, but I'm not sure whether this is actually an intended effect or not. — foxlit (talk) 17:49, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

The go-to practice for administrators is to indefinitely protect articles when they don't deserve it, which is sub-optimal. The purpose of this policy is to lay out a rationale to be able to determine an appropriate duration for protection, or decide if it is even required. Re: {{Infobox Alliance}}, it's included only on Alliance, why is it protected anyway? ---PcjWowpedia admin (TDrop me a line!•C207,729 contributions and counting) 17:55, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
The go-to practice for administrators is to do what they think is appropriate. After taking a random sample of recently unprotected articles, I fail to see the sub-optimality: autoconfirmed protection doesn't actually affect anyone (and most instances of it were inherited from long ago), and a few cases of "this page should not be edited anymore" seemed justified. Do we have an epidemic of pages that prevent edits without cause somewhere? — foxlit (talk) 18:31, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Bump. Xporc (talk) 13:38, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

I have to agree with foxlit that it's much more of a guideline than an actual policy. That being said, I much prefer the re-write pcj did. I suggest moving this page onto Project:Protected pages while keeping the protected page example from the original lede section. -- Alayea (talk / contrib) 21:52, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

If this is to be a 'policy' then should emphasize the process for appealing the decision to protect a page. If this is to be a 'guideline' then it is basically well written already, save for not calling it a policy. DDC (talk) 00:20, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

I don't really have an opinion on the subject, but I think that after so many years, it deserves either to be discussed again or to conclude the vote! WardsJames (talk) 22:30, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

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