Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Remove the lock system

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I wholeheartedly agree

This is spot on. Protecting a page is a kludge used by Wikipedians with power to keep out the plebs. It's gatekeeping and exclusionary. Timwi (talk) 04:58, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

@Timwi Could explain what you are talking about? Protecting pages is a anti-spam measure, not a anti-inclusionary tool. Sohom (talk) 13:08, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Not just or mainly anti-spam, rather anti-vandalism. A problem may be that people could intentionally vandalize pages to get it locked. In any case currently it's needed even with solutions like ClueBot. Prototyperspective (talk) 20:28, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

kludge used by Wikipedians with power to keep out the plebs – I don't think so, and even if it was, it wouldn't be effective. If the page is protected, one may start a discussion on the talk page. In the opposite scenario (the article is not protected), anyone may still revert the edit and start a discussion. Both cases have the same result if someone opposes the change. Protection is only effective for prevention of vandalism/spam. Janhrach (talk) 10:10, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

This reads like getting rid of page protections

title – how is that an improvement?! --SHB2000 (t • c) 21:41, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

and why is it just for Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource? --SHB2000 (t • c) 21:41, 30 July 2024 (UTC)