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==Title==
'''WikiProject on Semiprotect status'''

==Scope==
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Many RC patrol members spend a significant amount of time to revert misguided energy of vandals. Articles such as [[George W. Bush]], [[Abortion]], [[Creationism]], etc.. are at a constant state of vandalist attack. Vandals would less likely to vandalise these articles as a set of restrictions (to be established) will inconviniance/prevent them from vandalising as easily. Articles such as [[George W. Bush]] can be quite unreliable at times. --[[User:Coolcat|Cool Cat]] [[User talk:Coolcat|<sup>My Talk</sup>]] 03:26, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

==Participants==
* --[[User:Coolcat|Cool Cat]] [[User talk:Coolcat|<sup>My Talk</sup>]] 03:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
* -- [[User:Novacatz|novacatz]] 04:23, 10 August 2005 (UTC)  (relatively new to wikipedia, not sure what to do)

==Structure==
=== Estabslishing restrictions. Proposed restrictions ===
====Edit count, logged in users only====
The idea is that we require user  to log in and have n many edits prior to editing a semi-protected page.
=====Pro=====
* Vandals will need to make n number of edits. Fewer vandals will have the patience.
* Vandals that vandalise political/controversial pages due to their personal POV. (i.e. people vandalising [[George W. Bush]] just because they hate the guy)
* Certain articles that exist to be vandalise will be reliable.
* RC patrol will deal with lesser vandalim, or a slower rate of vandalism.
=====Con=====
* Vandals may instead vandalise random pages.
* May promote a minor level of elitisim although not intended.
* An entire new policy. One new thing for admins to deal with.

====Verification====
Below is the email from wiki-pipermail
 Hi! I've added to MediaWiki a feature which could be an alternative to page
 protection: the verify feature. I've added to the sysops' bar a
 'verify'/'unverify' button: 'verify' sets the current revision as
 'verified'. When there is a 'verified' revision, users can still edit the
 page, but new revisions are not shown until a sysops verifies it again (of
 course, even new revisions can be accessed though the history, and the
 verified one, if any, is in bold).
 'Unverify', of course, removes the protection.
 I think this would be a very good alternative to page protection against
 vandals.
 I would like to heard what do you think of it.
 Regards,
 Salvatore
[http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-July/041190.html]
=====Pro=====
* Already implemented by devs according to the email, not available in the admin tool bar, yet.
* Pages will be able to be edited by even the newest editor
* Article will be reliable
=====Con=====
*A new load to admins.
=== How should a pages semiprotected status be determined? ===
====Admins will power, identical to how it works on <nowiki>{{protected}}</nowiki>====
=====Pro=====
* Pages are semi-protected swiftly on demand
=====Con=====
* Just like <nowiki>{{protected}}</nowiki>, this function is open for abuse.
====A voting system====
SImilar to VfD users vote to semi protect pages
=====Pro=====
* "Democratic"
=====Con=====
* Likely to be cluttered like VfD
* Yet a nother vote!

==Goals==
# Inconvenience/Discourage/'''Exterminate!''' vandals.
# Make articles such as [[George W. Bush]], [[Abortion]] more reliable as these articles get vandalised multiple times a day.

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