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Page protection

I've archived and protected this talk page because people were adding problematic material. As the article is currently protected from editing, there's no need for this to be open at the moment anyway. If anyone has a query, by all means e-mail me. Many thanks, SlimVirgin 17:08, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Aactually, as it is protected from editing at the moment the talk page does need to be open for protected edit requests. Viridae 21:45, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

If anyone has such a request, they can e-mail me or another admin. I'd like to keep it protected for a short time, Viridae. SlimVirgin 23:08, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah understandable. I am also open to making small, uncontroversial edits for people, they can request them on my talk page while this page is protected. Viridae 00:40, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I do not believe it is appropriate to protect an article talk page, and definitely not because of something like this. Comments? Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:02, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons#Removing_discussion_of_articles_in_major_newspapers_from_talk_pages. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:00, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

The consensus there is clearly that this should not be protected. As a fellow admin, I therefore ask SV to remove the protection. DGG (talk) 18:08, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I've replied on WT:BLP. SlimVirgin 19:06, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

Following a suggestion from Black Falcon, I've unprotected the page to allow people to discuss the Observer article for a few days, as some editors seem to feel that discussion is required. The suggestion is that the discussion will be blanked after a few days as a courtesy. I was thinking three days, although no one's going to blank it mid-sentence so if it takes a bit longer, that's fine. But the idea is to discuss it, wrap it up, then blank the discussion. I hope the editors here see that as a fair compromise. SlimVirgin 21:43, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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