Forum:Protection Level For FAs

If I recall correctly, Featured Articles used to be auto-confirmed protected, meaning unregistered users couldn't edit the page. Apparently it has come up in the RFAs that any Featured Article is sysop protected, meaning unregistered users and registered users can't edit the page. To the point, this is a bad idea.

When an article is featured, it get's its own place on the main page. What used to be, "Hey look at me! I'm one of the wiki's best written pages! Edit me and make me better!" is now, "Hey look at me! I'm one of the wiki's best written pages! Too bad you can't edit me."

Wookieepedia, which has its fair share of edits and whatnot, leaves its Featured Article unprotected altogether. For our wiki to nearly prevent the editing of the page altogether seems counterproductive.

I have no idea whether or not the past two or so were protected at sysop level by accident or not. So just to get this into "official writing" so to speak, I propose that we set Featured Articles at the auto-confirmed protection level. 23:32, October 25, 2009 (UTC)

Support as nominator. 23:32, October 25, 2009 (UTC)