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::In general most sysops seem more than happy to leave pages unlocked, even if their content is controversial. Sadly there are a few pages which have been permanently locked for the cause of preventing vandalism. This reason is dubious, often the pages in question have experienced minimal vandalism whereas other, more frequent targets have never been protected. Also the indefinite locking of a page to prevent short term vandalism, especially given the rigorous checking of all edits, does seem somewhat ludicrous. It is in these cases that the premise of this debate may be correct, and perhaps those sysops who do regularly protect pages could consider unprotecting them on a trial basis, to see if the problems do lie in vandalism, or whether they lie in opposing viewpoints. [[User:TheGySom|TheGySom]] 08:41, 24 March 2008 (EDT)

::In general most sysops seem more than happy to leave pages unlocked, even if their content is controversial. Sadly there are a few pages which have been permanently locked for the cause of preventing vandalism. This reason is dubious, often the pages in question have experienced minimal vandalism whereas other, more frequent targets have never been protected. Also the indefinite locking of a page to prevent short term vandalism, especially given the rigorous checking of all edits, does seem somewhat ludicrous. It is in these cases that the premise of this debate may be correct, and perhaps those sysops who do regularly protect pages could consider unprotecting them on a trial basis, to see if the problems do lie in vandalism, or whether they lie in opposing viewpoints. [[User:TheGySom|TheGySom]] 08:41, 24 March 2008 (EDT)