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)

Highly used pages

Locks are essential for templates, modules and other scripts and data files used on many pages, and user blocks are ineffective against sock farms that only have one target. This is a no-no. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:02, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

I think this wish should be archived / marked as declined – there's too many wishes to also include declined/invalid ones here. It's not really proposing anything as in what to replace it with. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:05, 20 October 2024 (UTC)