MediaWiki talk:Protectedpagewarning
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Proposal: something like this:
WARNING: This page has been locked so that only users with sysop privileges can edit it. Be sure you are following the <a href='/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy'>protected page guidelines</a>, and specifically that you are not involved with this page and are making only very minor changes such as linking NPOV disputes if this page is temporarily protected.
Is this too long? -- Pakaran 03:27, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- I'm not sure all that is necessary. I've added a link to the policy, and really should know they shouldn't be editing a protected page. There seem to be more issues with sysops protecting pages they are involved with rather than editing them after they protected anyway. Angela. 03:31, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Agreed. It was just a thought. I think the number one thing to keep in mind is just not to do anything that might have the appearance of protecting a page in order to force an opinion on the community. -- Pakaran 03:32, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Since this warning can look rather close to the warning about 'This page is in excess of 30KB', I think making it stand out more (e.g. putting it in some nice red text :-) might be a good idea. Any thoughts? — Kate Turner | Talk 17:22, 2004 Sep 14 (UTC)