Talk:VRML/Archives/2020
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Article locked for editing for four years!?
Isn't that overkill? 185.28.20.244 (talk) 12:06, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
- It's semi-protected, which means unregistered users and users with unconfirmed accounts can't edit it. It's usually just a prevention measure for articles prone to not-very-good edits. I could edit it if I signed in, and anyone who is willing to help out elsewhere would also be able to edit this within a few days of signing up (technically the last reached of 4 days or 10 edits). I do question the 4 years without much on the talk page, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.71.158.128 (talk) 14:24, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
- It might indeed be overkill (it certainly made me raise my eyebrows), although it's better than the common recent alternative that involves widespread — indiscriminant, disproportionate & ineffective — blocking of wide ranges of IP addresses for many months on end.
- By the way, as the original comment was made in 2015, should that now say
- Article locked for editing for nine years?!
- —DIV — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.134.133.136 (talk) 14:55, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
Ten years of CyberTown, eight years of semi-protection
The word CyberTown (in section VRML § Emergence, popularity, and rival technical upgrade) should be linked to its wikipedia page CyberTown, as the article is very interesting, and also would give readers a better idea of VRML's usage.
I would boldly edit the page myself, but this article has been semi-protected for eight years!! Looking at the protection log for the page, it seems the semi-protection was intended as a temporary stopgap to deal with sock-puppetry, not as a result of some inherent "attractiveness" of this page for vandals...
Anyway, it doesn't really matter, this message will be ignored, and eventually (hopefully) this page will be unlocked out of sheer chance. Ah well. ~ 2600:1700:1261:E730:FDB8:99BD:FA9D:F27B (talk) 08:23, 10 October 2020 (UTC) ~
- Edit done. You could have used an {{Edit semi-protected}} template to request the edit to be done. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 16:26, 29 December 2020 (UTC)