Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Archive/Private protection

Private protection

Withdrawn by proposer (too many proposals)

Problem:
- The existence of userpages do not need to be edited by any user (except their owners)
Who would benefit:
- All
Proposed solution:
- Establishment of the level of protection to prevent editing except by the owner and administrators (like "Edit other users' CSS files" and "Edit other users' JavaScript files")
More comments:

Proposer: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 10:36, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See Community health initiative/Allow users to restrict which user groups can edit their own user page, talk page and subpages thereof. MER-C (talk) 12:28, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I think this might be used for "protecting" improper content. While on say enWiki we usually give wide latitude to userspace content, usertalkspace is a different beast and a number of improper userpages are created. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:43, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Jo-Jo Eumerus: No, the pages will only be protected like how .js files work now, so Administrators always have access and can do away with "improper content". But besides them only the user have edit access too. This of course have to be userpage only. Ammarpad (talk) 00:34, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Not everyone policing for problem content is an admin. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:00, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
We protect user pages when problems occur. Those pages are for improving the encyclopedia like others and agree we see people putting inappropriate material on their user pages. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:40, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The survey has a limit of three proposals per person; archiving this one at the proposer's request. -- DannyH (WMF) (talk) 21:44, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]